Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 26, 1940.
The U.S. War Department has ordered the evacuption of American troops from the Mysang district in the island of Mindanao; despite the fact that the peaceful community is threstoned with extinction by Alipang and his dreaded Moto bandite.
Four mon are ordered to Mysang to assist Colonel Hatch in training the Philippines Con- Soon after stabulary, which is to keep order in the district after the withdrawal of the troops.
But Manning. their arrival Colonel Hatch is murdered by a Moro and Manning takes chargo,
too, is killed, leaving only Hartley, a strict disciplinarian, Larson, McCool and Canavan, the doc-
tar, to hold out against tho
thousands of Moros Tho
Moros dam the water upply, as
a result of which cholera broaks. out.
THE disease spread like wildfire.
Every available cot was set up in the hospital, and when that was full they used the church. Stretchers passed through the streets hourly, bearing the stricken, carrying out the dead.
Canavan gave the orders: no raw fruit or uncooked vegetables. No more boats to unload their cargoes at the dock. No more water from the well.
He went
to Hartley: "We've got to have water. The whole village is pollut ed. You've got to send someone to dynamite the dam?"
Hartley protested the jungle would be sure death to anybody.
"It's sure death here un- less we get water," Canavan snapped.
Struggling against over- whelming odds
Canavan
tried to bring the disease under control.
The Spanish well was
march! He tock them to Hartley.
THE
REAL GLORY
A gure detached itself from the
Il bad left the sleeping Linda į
Canavan reached a clearing niong the edge of the river. Above him two huzzards circled heavily up from behlo a boulder of rock.
Yelling, they rushed up, the side
The one in the lead, without a mo- ment's hesitation, flung himself over the edge of the cliff, and the second one followed, lifting both feet off the ground in a wild suicidal leap.
On the other side he found strewn plosion.
bottles of unopened beer.
Canavan was opening the dyna
mite case and stuffing his pockets with sticks. "Stay close to Captain Hartley and see that his orders are obeyed. I'm going to the dam."
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Concessions
By Soviets
In Return For Nazi Military. Aid
STALIN WOULD LIKE
TO FORGET TANNENBERG
(Continued from Page 4.)
He sent out his orders on a portable wireless in a code o SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHTM* elementary that they were PARIS, Jun. 23 (UP).-Press re-
I
with a kiss. That was the hardest of the gully and started running for thing to do. Fighting the cholem the edge of the escarpment. aldo by side, he had learned the stuff slie was made of, and he knew when he went back home to hang out his ahinge she must be by his side. and when ..he amended his thought as he gazed around him at The fanatical screams of "Allah!" the trackless, forbidding jungk. were swallowed up in a terrific ex- There was no signs of Hartley or even plosion, as the dynamite boxes crash-ports confirm that Rusia has made promptly read and received in that he had passed this way. Evt-ed on the rocks below,
important economic concessions to Hindenburg's camp even before dently the Datu was leading hint fer The third cargadore reeled back Germany, even involving mineral they got to the Russians for off any track a searching party would wards as a bullet from Canavan's rights in Northern Russia, in ex-whom they were intended. follow, to the waiting ambush. Poor pistol caught him in the back; his change for a Nazi promise of general Even if the Germans had Int-blind Hartley would have to rely legs seemed paralyzed by the shot, staff consultations in regard to Fin meraly played at fighting, the Implicitly on his leadership, never but with his hands he clawed his land and the Balkans.
Russians would have lost Tan- suspect the duplicity until he walked way to the edge of the cliff. Cana-
It is stated that consultations will nenberg. And for a long time van grabbed the dynamite box just be held this month in Moscow to dis-the Germans did show all those straight into the trop.
BA he somersaulted with ร wild cuss Nazl-Soviet collaboration in the
face of the Increased realalance of signs of hesitation and doubl scream into the abyan,
When Canavan turned with the noutrals.
that nearly 1,000 miles away box of dynamite, Hartley was atand- covered and a guard posted
ing apparently stunned by the exit is necessary for reasons of prestige the Marne.
Russia has informed Germany that were losing them the battle of night and day with orders But Hartley was as implacable as shadows at the foot of the steps up the hillside like clues in a trea-him he realised the concussion had Finland before attacking in any joint get to work they were faced not As Canavan came toward that Russia conclude the campaign in When the Germans finally dil to shoot down anyone at ever. As long as he was in com- the whip-like body of the Datu insure hunt, cartridge belts, tin piles left him stone blind.
single operations in the Balkans or by an army but by a rabble- tempting to get water, mand, the War Department orders his gaudy cont and tight striped and forks, a soldier's hat, a battered "It's all right," he said quieldly to elsewhere.
would be obeyed! He reminder trousers-a strange, almost carnival harmonica, and finally, near some the unseeing face, "the Datu was
and a retreating rabble at that. The flames of the lime Canavan of a sick herd-bull, defying figure in this setting of death and shrubbery, a knapsack with several leading you into an ambush. I have
The agreement resulted in German With the exception of the XVth. kiln illuminated the night; the moment when his leadership sorrow and with the carnival mum-
the dynamite enough. Yabo!"
troops occupying the corridor of Corps, which fought nobly and Polish Galicia on Monday, great bonfires in the street would be wrested from him., ¦mer's mask carved in lines of ex- The bodies of the soldiers were
"Yes, sir."
well, the Russian forces had were continually fed by con- Revolt was in the air. It was aggerated good fellowship, which further up where they had fought off
crumbled. teminated clothing and churning under the alek apathy of somehow convey a latent dreadful the surprise attack, their backs to
Canavan didn't like the man, the river. household articles-the leap- see it in the dark faces of the sol measured tones, "the people die with horror.
the plague-ridden town. You couldness.
"It is true," the Datu was saying Suddenly Canavan stopped rigid ing, fantastic shadows seem-diers watching their women die
Under a flat-branched ee spreading itself with the ed like the form of death it- McCool felt the need to fight rising unless the river runs again."
in him like a fever. He faced Hart- self, unleased.
A slight urgency came into his tilitarian precision of an umbrella, ley across his desk, some stupen-voice and he leaned forward address was a pale head sprouting like a Hartley knew Canavan was dous effort of control making him ing the bowel figure
giant mushroom from the sod. of Hartley. right. He called Larsen, gave sway on his feet and clench his fists "Give me men, Tuan, and I will lead of tortured dying, and thick Almost unrecognisable under the
The bound Datu seemed reluctant him a squad of eight men and at his side.
"Shouldn't someone go and see break up the dam.
them myself to the river bead to with honey, were the simple child to follow the path to the riverhead. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
By August 20, 1914, the whole orders to dynamite the dam. what happened to Larsen. Captain?"
ke features of Larsen..
Canavan was alert for ambusli. NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UP)"Em-pitiable affair was all over. At Miguel went with him to show he said in a tenso voice.
Long afterwards. Canavan remem- Canavan's mouth went down in a Under an arch of knarled and twisted barrassed silence has been Tokyo's least 120,000 Russians him the way. When he shook
bered the expression in his small thin hard Hae which, for a moment, banyans the Mero stopped, sullen only reaction to the peace terms re-taken prisoner, and the Germans hands with Canavan and McCoolmore nien. Suppose there was ane got no further, for down the
"Sorry. McCool, I can't spare any eyes--the diaboikal intensity,
was not steady,
and scowling.
ported to have been signed by Mr. his honest face was beaming attack un the post?"
Then he leaned over, took a bottle "Get on, my friend Canavan Wang Ching-wei," says the New York claimed 500 guns and immense with delight: "Oh, boyl What
case and gave him a push. With a scream
supplies; but no food, "I wish to God there was-so does street two soldiers moved slowly, a of beer from Larsen's
The story of Finland's earlier orchids I'm going to get in that everybody else. We're all so ner-imp body between thern, calling for cracked it open against the rock he stumbled forward and the earth jungle!"
collapsed under his feet. Face down in Shanghai explain the gentleman's fight against the invading Soviet vous we're jumping at shadows" the doctor. The slim outlines of the beside him." "Hope it won't be lilies," McCool leaned over the deak, his eyes down the steps and across to them friend, he drank a silent toast that of the Datu transfixed. by a dozen
been well told, for the world was McCool muttered as they watch-burning with a feverish light: "If
was also a pledge. Then he spears, edhim disappear into the so don't send me to look for Lar-in two striden;
Hartley waiting in the gully could lan lenders want to rebuild friend-1920-and-war correspondents "At a moment when Japan's elvi-just a little tired of fighting in jungle.
sen, siri'm going myself with or Miruet-The closed eyes fitnahil-the-empty-bottle-agaimal-the without orders.
tered: "Teniente." Canavan lean- rock,
the rear of the dynamite ship with the United States, these had exhausted their talents. THE fight **McCool! You're sick.
ed over him: "What happened?” Canavan began to climb again charge, and then the faint stendier terms remind us of the mentality of But a race that had only been. against disease The Irishman rushed out without Miguel struggled
eyes roar of the waters rushing into the Japan's for words. along the river bank. His
military commanders. went on.
He caught sight of the snake-like move-dry bed of the river and down the The absence of a Tokyo denial sug-a nation two years fought-and The answering. Just at the door he "Ambush-killed-everybody.”
gests that the Army still controls.the Won; river bed staggered slightly Canavan lapsed into unconsciousness. As ment of men moving in single filo en mountainside.
When Canavan rejoined Hartley Government's policy." found him a few minutes later, face Canavan took him in his arms. he a high rocky escarpment to his right.
Hindenburg's body at Tannen- stretched outdown on the floor of his bedroom, was conscious of the Date peering clambering frantically up the steep Alipang's campground and there He veered off in that direction, he was unusually grave. "I circled
berg lics close by the huge Ger under the piti-his cartridge belt hooked around his intently into the boy's face,, less
man war memorial, which con- 8 un,waist.
rough grade, away from the river, was not a More in sight. We've cracked and gray as the dry skin of a snake.. No water flowed, and Larsen did not re- tura
The padre passed from house
to house administering extreme unction and comforting the bereaved.
n death blow.
Cannvan had got McCool into
"Alone?" Hartley asked, turning in the direction of his voice.
"No, I'll take my pal the Datu-- as a shield and guide. Wait for me here."
Embarrassed Silence
Is Japan's Reaction To Wang's "Peace"
Times.
"Mr. Wang's pro-Japanese friends
After desperate efforts to col lect themselves and to escape from the marshes and forests, the Russians began to surrender іл thousands. As prisoners, they at least hoped for a crust Lof bread, and even a little drink-
able water.
were
proval of the Japanese Army. body they carried made Canavan leap With eyes level on the face of his in a deep plt, Canavan saw the body agreement as 'unofficial, with the ap-army is a fine one. It has never
Miguel was tough.
stare.
Canavan
car
WHEN Hart-thought he could patch him up, but Sometimes he would lose sight of the played right into Allpang's hands. ley got the re- for some reason he didn't say so, in slowly winding column, then it would All the time we've been marching port of McCool's answer to the Datu's Inquiring reappear quite abarply against the Alipang and his men-" He did not finish the sentence. "We've got to aly collapse he seem- Something troubled Miguel the At last he was running parallel get back fast." ed to take it like next morning as he tossed restlessly as it wound into an isolated Behind the wall of bis blindness, to and fro on his narrow hospital gully. He saw the Datu pacing Hartley's mind was werking doubly cat. He mumbled and mattered quickly in the lead, his eyes shift-quick. "Yabo," he shouted, "get ng from side to alde. He saw him your men cutting bamboo. I want bed with Linda's easy as he came out of the turn when the groping Hartley, rafts. Enough rafts to carry the
ancathetic.
Canavan caught the word "Data" stumbling and tripping behind him, whole troop-we'll go by the river. several times, then the boy would asked him a sharp and anxious ques-
*tion. lapse into unconsciousness, Cana-
Evidently Hartley had begun to van leaned forward, tensely. "Come Try to remember."
they Mike-what about on.
the Datu? question the circuitous way
were going to the river head. Itely At the sound of the name. Mikeless in his growing blindness, Cont opened his eyes wide in aniden van could see his hands fluttering terror, and grabbed Bill's arm: "The out in a futile instinctive effort to Data-he with Alipang's men In sense his position. Yabo was be anibush-he kill Larsen..
hind him, his fice drawn with worry. CANAVAN And behind him were the threoi raced back
to Moro cargadores, carrying the
Linda haunted the hospital help, and when she had fallen into an exhausted sleep sitting by his and the streets, overwhelmed by side, Canavars had carried her to her the catastrophe. Canavan mak-own quarters in his arms. ing his ceaseless' rounds seemed
Hurtley was waiting for him in hardly to see her. At last she the shadows of the veranda when he stood squarely in his path, her came out. Ho crune uncertainly face pala and strained, her across the porch. "Linda all right?" hands clasped tightly together, he asked vnguely. "I want to help," she said.
"Just exhausted from forty-eight Sit down, Canavan. I want to hour duty," Canavan sald briefly, talk to you."
"This isn't your kind of sol. diering, Linda," he said wearily, "It's just Alth and slime and work that'll make you sick to your stomach."
"Tell me what to do.”...
ឆ
"I'm pretty busy."
HARTLEY put a hand on
his arm. Cana-
van noticed again
the heavy immo-
n
TO-MORROW THE ATTACK
13th Time Was Unlucky
MORE MEN BEING sists of eight towers 65ft. high,
CALLED UP
LONDON, Jan. 25 (Reuter)-Tho
February 17.
with an altar from which rises a huge sword.
Over the coffin of the dend next batch of men to be called up soldier, Hitler pronounced a fun. for military service must register on eral oration five years ago. Said the man whose words have such The order applies to men over 23 weight with the German people: years of age but not yet 24, and those "Not for a century now will it who have reached 20 since the last be necessary for Germany again
to defend her honour."
batch was called up.
It is expected that 250,000 men will be enlled up.
DIFFICULT YEARS FOR CHILDREN
It's when children, start to shoot up suddenly that they need
who are growing fast often tire
Hartley's quar-dynamite boxes on their backs: one Contraband Control Get your special attention. Children
of them Canavan recognised as the ters, but he was Juramentado he had captured from
no longer on the
British
this time.
Their Man
tributo
lo
easily, get pale, listless and do
..
poorly at school
The trouble la that children
the play and at the same time they control
are growing!
In his tired mind he suddenly
porch or in his bared abrenat of the column and
Alipang's camp. Quietly, he chm saw her, at six, in a Top Ser-
LONDON, Jan. 28. (Reuter)-A bedroom.
who geant's uniform his long sen-j
rushed across the Jjumped down from a boulder, direct-veteran Norwegian skipper,
[boasted that he had slipped through altivo lips relaxed Än just tho
bility of the man. į
parado ground in the Datu's path. Ilko
Why do you lead, the men this the contraband control In the last have a double job of work to do. ghost of a smile. "See that
strong to headquarters, but overy window, animal staked to lime over
was dark. In the guardhouse he way, Datu, when the river head is war a dozen times, is now in a They use up energy in work and
port- there? Make
thero?" he asked, pointing in the effectiveness of the Brilleh the ground.
grabbed Sergeant: saturated solution, (and wash
"Where's direction from which he had come "Canavan," he said without fur-Captain Hartlay?" every dish in every house in ther preliminary, "I'm going blind.”
Canavan "Hartley called as Ils ship was brought in by thei The Sergeant saluted: "He leave Mysang."
So that was it! That bolo cut half hour ago for jungle with com-toned, stopping abruptly. In the contraband control nasisted by a sca- "Yes, sir." Linda anawered the norve centre latch knew-ho
plane which spotted his vessel near the Arctic and which wirelessed a and for a fleeting second he ordered me home to the base hos-pany of men."
patrol ship ahead to bring him in. imagined she was going to pital, but I tore up the report after
The captain acknowledges in good squarely trented, spirit tint he has been fairly and
salute.
ho was killed. I wanted to die
The Datu, wan he with him?" "SI. Teniente. He go along." The river wound and turned in- One night Yabo walked into in harness. The army is my life.terminably.up into the hills: Caria Canavan's office with a dozen | ·
van thrashed through the vegetation, The blundering, lonely pride of the trying to find a trail. grim looking soldiers behind
man tore at Bill's heart. Ho He had taken the long chance of him. "Captain," he said "we couldn't help feeling sorry for him, getting to Hartley and his men be watch our women and children but it sunan nice meas. "I had to fore they were betrayed into ambush die Alipang he do this to tell you," the hopeless volca went by the treacherous Datu. He had us, and stay safe in the jungle. on. "Larsen gong, McCool nick. left the sick McCool In charge in the We no longer afraid of enemy. You're the only one left. We've got village-whon McCool heard there who do this coward thing we to send for the army.
was nobody olić, through the fox of Canavan rose na though he would his fever, he mised his head from
path.
That way dangerous," the Datu sald sullenly.
"Yes, I know--I just got a look
bushed him."
at Larsen. And I know who am
LIKE Hght ning the Datu's
kris was out and Effect Of Hinted AWUNK through
the
air, but Canavan WRA quicker with hi gun, and it cat tored
to
the
U.S. Navy Cuts
WASHINGTON, Jan, 25 (Reuter), The Naval authorities announce that by limiting the financial au-
the Naval, Expansion Programme to
Aj vessels which the Navy, could bulld
want to fight, we array do hand to hand battle with Hart his pillow and salated weakly: "Anground as tho Moro caught at hathorisations recently granted" under
Canavan folt a thrill go up hisley's despair. "Maybe you can walt order's an order, air, and by the wounded wrist. spine as he heard the Filipino's that long, but the cholera can't. We time Canavari had on his cartridge A Mcreaming Moro command gal in two years the sum of $100,000,000 words at last they were ready to don't need the army-we need run- belt, the Irishmen was reaching for vanised the cargadores standing we could be cut from the proposed $800,-
Ining water."
hind Yaho
his shoes.
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And Samsonov? Where is he {buried?
On the night of August 28 he was on horseback, vainly trying to ride forward through the mass of his soldiers, stumbling backwards. He dismounted, walked into a wood. His staff heard a shot.
Samsonov was Russian to the
end.
NINE-WORD WAR COMMUNIQUE
PARIS, Jan. 25 (Reuter)--To- night's French communique states that it was a quiet day on the whrde with some artillery actors.
NAZI FREIGHTER SCUTTLED
PARIS, J2m, 25 (Beuber).~~~The German freighter. "Albert" Janus, 1,600 tons, was scuttled on being inte tercepted by one of the French potral ships, MN B
A U-boat was successfully attacki by, another French,patrol ship,
German
Manchukuoan
Trade "Relations
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·DERLIN, Jan. 10 (Taifer),...Find Marshal formann Coering' 10-day · received Mr. Aikawa, Gligirman tử · the Manchukuo company for builds (he up liênyy industry, and djæmpet with him the "pratitions of Cherninita. | Manchukunkie frnda relations.”