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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933.....

P. & 0.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

THE CHINA MAIL.

LEGEND AND LUCK

(Continued from Page 10.)

BEAM FOR SAFETY AT SEA.

Invisible Ray To Penetrate Fog.

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, turned he sent for Lake, and the poacher the bridge, reached He crossed indicate the position of the land-

thirty minutes. Fate, indeed, was scowling on the otter this Christmas.

A light powdering of snow had be- With lazy grace Dolgo threaded the gun to speckle the darkness.

It gave purling water. For a few hours, at the night a queer glimmer, brought a least, ho was free from foraging. That hust to the world. The poacher turn- giant pike had been his gift from ed up his collar, thrust his hands deoper invisible to the eye, can penetrate A beam of light, which though Santa Claus. It would supply even the into roomy pockets, and atrodu on to- clamouring cuba with many meals.

Returning past the raised alulce, closed

wards the foot-bridge. The silence the thickest of fogs and light up

about him, thickened as be a sensitised through the narrows,

screen carried by ho encountered reached the stream. Even the rippling ships, is science's latest offering the swan. Sho

was busily engaged purl was absent this evening. towards safety at sea. swallowing a luckless jack, but at sight For a while he stood by the bridge, a of Dalgo her long neck went back, her faint white tracery stretching into

This revolving beam of infra- beady eyes glinted, and her wing fea shadow. Try as he might, he could red raye will be operated from ex- thers raffled with rage and fear. not dismiss his fears of Bovey Abbey, isting lighthouses and lightships, This, it seemed, was sheer ingrati- "Dang es, Luka Purvis," he told if experiments, which are now be tude. Dolgo over her stonily, dived, himself, what do 'ce venr? Don't be a and passed on. Out of simple aban-vool There ain't no zuch thing az aing carried out succeed. don he began to roll, twist and scmer ghost, an' if there iz, why, give 'un a Complete safety of landing for soult, his jawa wide and whiskers wallop."

aeroplanes in conditions of the He clenched his fist and felt a trifle worst visibility, will, also, it is quivering with an expression remark- ably like a smile.

comforted. From over the still fields Like purvis had to wait until four drifted remate music, sweet yet lone- hoped, be attained through the o'clock before he could see the masterly in the blackness. It was some coral use of infra-red rays. of the otter hounds. John Ward had

A serica of concentric beams to been away from Cothelford on a few party serenading an outlying cottage.

The sound stendied sensonable calls. But directly he re-

the far bank and' quickened his pace towards the abbey.

ing ground to descending planes Could to have heard it, the paper is 'envisaged. mill was still thrumming merrily; it might have given him

To warn a fog-bound ship of 1 feeling of

But his dangerous rocks and shoals, the security, of companionship. heart had begun to beat faster, send- same system of dots and dashes ing it muffled rapping to his ears. With as that at present in use for or- the ruins 20 near, he could think of dinary light-houses could be re- nothing else.

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enter the manor house dining-room, twisting his hat in his hands.

"Well, Luke, still making un honest living?"

Ward's eyes twinkled. He know the poucher's reputation and methods.

"Just

grubbing along, zur,

But

I've got summet to tell 'ee. This morning I waz along the stream, a

taking a walk."

He paused and grinned styly. "You'ro fond of nice, innecent walks, of course?"

"Yez, zur, zurely.

There they loomed in sight, an eerie corded on the sensitised screen whitness outlined in the gloom. Each indicating to the navigating of- black square of empty window was an ficer the exact position of his ves-i

YOL watching him

sel.

His pace slackened. He drew a aband Well, what do

'ce think I zaw come out of the ziream and climb the var bank?"

"Two elephants," sald Ward flippant 13

"No, zur, but zummat near az zur. prising the Red Devil."

"What?" Ward was on his feet, beaming, excited. "Here,

down. Wait a minute while I put the light on. We must hear all about this

across his forehead, talked to him

The experiments are being car-

self for qucouragement. Used to the ried out in collaboration with the would have given that fifty shillings search laboratories of the Ilford countryside at night as he was, he navigating authorities at the re-

for a lamp now,,

"Vool!" he said shakily. "Vool! (Photographic) Company. Ghosts at Chritz'as are all good 'uns. What do they say? Penzo and

goodwill to all men. On'y good ghosts: THE SOVIET'S GIANT STEEL

are about thiz night."

He made no attempt to deny their existence.. With the ruins upon him, and the darkness listening, what else

to do "

He lit o hanging lamp, that east its mellow glow over the beamed celling, revealing paper chains, sprigs of holly, was a man to

Very slowly he walked forward. The and a great bunch of mistletoe beneath tiny flakes curried ahead in silent which every fair guest would pay for-

With every step he took his feit on the inorrow.

legs seemed, however, more reluctant to move. Ele halter, nearly level withi th ruin, and drew his breath. What was that sound?

"Now, then. How do you know it was the Red Devil?"

"I zaw the white patch on 'un, zur, above the tail. A fair beauty, un iz to be Zure. Mebbe 'un weighs well-nigh thirty pua."

Icgions.

Ghosts didn't make sounds.

TOWN,

(Continued from Page 6.)

By both Russians and Ameri- cans I was told that the quality of the fron was exceptionally good.

*

*

What has been achieved has been done in face of tremendous dif-

A sickly, nervous grin curled bis That's the fellow right enough!" lips. With an effort he braced ficulties of the kind inseparable

took a Ward was radiant, "By Jingo, this is so staring wildly for he know from every Bolshevik enterprise. In

a couple of paces, then llu- news. I've said I'd give a fiver to

gered

the first place, a branch railway not what. catch that otter, and I mean it."

Another pace. A fow more seconds had to be built to reach Magnito- Luke's fingers twitched.

would take him past the dead stone gorak. For nearly a hundred miles "Well, zur, zeela' it's Chrizmas-"

pile, now distorted under its white Ward laughed.

it consists only of single track; the shroud.

Two further steps he took, bend rails are old ones, made in 1871, to side. Without and were pulled up from some turning from side warning a groan rose at his very foot other less important line. these, paralysed with terror. Then his Throat choked, scalp prickling, he stood Magnitogorsk cannot hope for dilated eyes saw the White Lady glide new rails or a double track until it up through the darkness. Something makes its own rails-from its own

steel in its own rolling mill. clammy brushed his check.

"Not so fast. First of all I want to know the exact position of the holt.'

"I can tell 'ee that eazy," said Luke, and proceeded to give exact details.

The master listened in silence, his "I'm Just the sort of place the Red Devil would choose. I've often thought he must change his bolt pretty fro- quently."

brick-red face thoughtful.

"It az ztruck me, zur, that a worry on Boxing Day-"

That touch broke the spell. With The trucks that bring coal from wild yell he turned, dashed madly back along the bank, blundered a 1,500 miles away take back with "The very thing, Luke, the very through the night in blind panic. Not them some of the are to be smelted whit of control returned until he at Kuznetsk; but in Both directions thing. I'll send round the sewn to night. One moment? He pursed his had reached the lamp-lit safety of the Lips. "You say the holt's just below Grey Crow and gulped down an out-they must pass through this bottle- neck of single track, together with Bovey Abbey. Then we must shut the sized brandy. sluice in the narrows. It's the one

Down by the ruins the White Lady all the iron that goes out of Mag- back to her shelter under a bush. terials that come in. A now, direct makes down-stream,"

After all, she was white, that stray said Luke slowly. Afte "Very well, zur," “Til zhut 'un to-morrow."

Luke had disturbed from her railway line between Magnitogorsk SWAM "Tomorrow! Nonsense, it's Christ rest; and certainly a lady, because she and Kuznetsk must wait until the EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), mas Day. If i know you, Luke, you'll had paid her debt to Dolgo in keeping iron centre is able to manufacture

be at the Grey Crow, swigging eider Luke from the sluice.

Before and getting muzzy as fast as you can.

the bells rang out their the necessary rails. swallow. You forget all about et-chimes to herald another Christmas, ters, and be having a fierce time in the the otter and his family had emerged into a shimmering white world, pass- barparlour."

"Mebbe," said Luke, with a sheepished down beneath the untouched alalco and entered the sanctuary of their now home.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for place where we can't cut him off if he had moaned again, hissed and hopped nitogorsk and all the food and fun-

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grin.

But I'l zhut un bevoro I go to the Grey Crow, zur."

The master shook his head. "You've heard of the old proverb,

Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan Luke, never put off tilt to-morrow.

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what's wrong with doing it to-night?"

The poacher shifted uneasily, "Well, zur, the zlulce is worked from t'other side of the ztream, and there's the abbey to pass."

od.

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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

The following unclaimed tele- rams are lying at the Eastern Ex- tension Telegraph Co.'s office:--

Coull, Shanghai Banking Cor-

Drift of Labour,

Then there is the problem of 18 bour turnover. By every means in their power, by bribes and threats and prohibitions, the Bolsheviks have led to stem the ebb and flow of this human tide that drifts from one place of work to another.

Partly the people are impelled by the nomadic instinct that le as old as Russia itself; partly they are driven by the search for "a better hole," where there is more food, v

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Ward jerked back his head and roar-poration, from Salisbury, Rhodesin.

"What?. Afraid of the White laughter. The idea of a hulking giant liko Luke» being nervous of a ghost tickled him immensely. "Get along with you! This is nineteen-twenty- five, man. D'you mean to

tell me you're frightened of a legend?". Not exackly fightened, zur,

won't do, Luke, Speak the truth, Admit you'ro n'coward.”

Luke bristled.

is It

"I ain't a coward," he said indig.

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"Aren't you? Then shut that sluice to-night." Noticing the poacher's hesi tation, Ward slipped a hand into his pocket. "You've probably earned your fiver, Luke. I'll give you half of it now, on condition you shut that sluice at once,” ·

He was interested to see how strong a hold superstition had on this sturdy Tounger!

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Luke wriggled uncomfortaby. stared at, the glowing fire, the warm, lamp-lit comfort of the room, and thought of those disical ruins. But the prospect of fifty shillings, and the dogged Somerset pluck, came to his aid.

“Very well, zur," he said reluctantly, "Il but an naow

"That's right," Ward counted out the money.Why, man, it's unly fast! atler Ave. No self-respecting-ghost starts wandering until midnight Lauko wagged his head as he

"I dunno much so put upd dubiously..

It was half-pist five when Luko Purvis left the main road below Gothel ford and branched off along the foot path to the stream. Six o'clock would no him by the pice. Then a Lew turns of the handle, a grinding rattle from the pusty old cogs, and Dolgo's door would be knelled. Sheer vll luck had prompted the poachero presta) him unconsciously by a mer

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A slander action was heard on February 7, the Supreme Court before. Mr. Justice Wood, when Madam Beaton of the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, claimed $1,000 from Miss Julia Sayer, trading as the Jullette Beauty Par- lour. As a result of the slander Madam Beaton suffered. considerably. from loss of Chinese ellents. The Judge awarded the plaintiff $200, with costs, remarking that the statement allegedly made was defamatory. The case is fully reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL,

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Six Chinese fire-cracker importers, who were on February 1, fined $10 each fer, failing to notify the Hon. 1.G.P. of the address of the premises in which they stored their fireworks, made a second appearance at the Central Magistracy, on a charge of storing the crackers in premises. that did not conform with the regulations. Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for the defendants.

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