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(Continued from Page 9.)

THE CHINA¬MAIL.

After a time the ravine opet They find that they hava debouched, into another of those shallow de ressions. This one is not so clear y defined though, and the opposite wall of it is nicked by what is ap parently another depression,- like two overlapping discs. They cross the first depression, while more ol the dead-looking grass bayonets sabre their legs dryly, and pass through the gap into the next de pression.

This one is like a miniature val ley between miniature cliffs. Overhead they can see only the droway and empty bowl of the sky.. with a few faint smoke smudges to the north-west.

The sound of the barrage is now! remote and for awaw; a vibration in earth felt rather than heard. There are no recent shell craters or marks here at ay. It is as thongh they had strayed suddenly into a region, a worki where the war had nothing had not reached, where renched, where no life is, and silence

They give itself is dead,

the wounded man water and go on.

Former Czar at Nazi Ceremony

The valley, the depression, strays vaguely before them. They can se that it is a series of over-lapping, vaguely circular basina formed by agency. no apparent or deducible Pollid grass bayonets sabre at their; legs, and after a time they are again among old healed scars of trees to leaves which there cling sparse neither green nor dead, as if they Wednesday, 18th Dec. at 10 am.too had been overtaken and caught Wednesday, 10th Jan. at 10 am. by a hiatus in time, gossiping dryly among themselves though there is 24th Jan.

no wind. The floor of the valley is not level.

It in itself descends into hold the 'nock of a water bottle to face. "Where's Mr. McKie?" the vague depressions, rises again

the wounded man's mouth, clatter captain says, vaguely between its shelving walks.

ing it against his teeth and spilhug In the centre of these smaller de the water down the front of he

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IKAWA MARU (Starta from Kobe). Wednesday,

IYE MARU (starts from Kobe),

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An indication of the spread of Naxi infusnes is presented in this picture, showing former Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria (right), holding swastika emblem as he chatted with Mayor Fishler of Munich during the cere monies attendant upon the laying of the cornerstone for the new Munich Art Gallery. Chancellor Adolph Hitler oficiated at the asrESTONÍNA.

pressions whitish knobs of chalk Lunic. The captain looks back.

thrust up through the thin topsoil.

"A's gone, sir-r," the sergenat says in a husky whisper. The cap- tain sits up.

"How many are left?" "Fourteen, air-r," the sergeant whispers,

"Fourteen. "What's the

"What's this?" he says sharply. The ground has a resilient quality. The men crowd up. Their eyes are ake walking on cork; feet make no wide, sober; he looks about at the

aubaltern quiet, intent faces,

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the

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Saturday,

2nd Dec.

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Tuesday.

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Twelve missing. We'll have to dig fast." He gets to.

faint light from Bays. his feet. The

the

foot of the cliff "Where are we?"

Icaning

A

matter back there, Sergeant?" "Wind-up." the subaltern He looks about at the eroded walis, above falls coldly up the heaped the abruptness of a thunderclap. the whitish knobs thrusting quietly avalanche, upon the thirteen hel lling the silence, the wards seem aut of the earth. "Feel it myself," mets and the white bandage of the ng to hang about them as though he says. He laughs, his laughter wounded mun huddled about silence here had been so long un little thin, ceasing. "Let's get nut

forget ils disturbed that it had

For answer the sergeant moves of here, sir," he says. "Let's get

the torch. It streaks interally in purpose; as one they look quielly

into the sun again." and soberly about, at the shelving

"You are in the sun here the to the darkness, along a wall, walls, the stubborn ghosts of trees,

captain says. “Ease off there, men. tunnel, into a yawning blackness, the bland, hushed sky. "Topping

Stop crowding. We'll be out soon. the walls faceled with pale glinte birde and

About the tunnel, sitting hole-up for embusque

We'll find the road and get past the of chalk. uch," the subaltern saya.

upright against barrage and make contact again." or "Ay," the captain says. His ward He turns and goes on. The party the walls, are skeletons in dark in turn hangs sluggishly and fades.

tunice and bagging Zouave trous Then they all slop as one, in thejers, their mouldering arms beside The men at the rear close up, the gets into motion again,

utter them. The captain- recognises movement passing forward, the men looking quietly and soberly about, attitudes of walking, in an

suspension, and stare at one another. them as Senegalese troops of the "But no birds here," the

Again the earth moves under their May fighting of 1915, surprised' and. attern says. "No insects even."

feel. A man screams, high, like ajkilled by gas probably in the attl captain "Ay." the

BASA.

wonten or a horse; as the firm earthtudes in which they had taken re- caverns. He word fades, the silence comes down shifts for a third time beneath them fuge in the chalk again sunny profoundly still.

the officers whirl and see beyond takes the torch from the sergeant. nubaltern pauses and

"We'll see if there's anyone else,” gaping Bom the down-plunging man thing with his foot. The men halt bule with dry dust still crumbling he says. "Have out the trenching also, and the subaltor and the cap-about the edges before the orifice tools." He flashes the light upon tain, without touching it, examine crumbles again beneath a second the precipice. It rises into gloom. darkness, then into the faint rum. the half-buried

Blirs

The

The

and mouldering man.

With rife. The wounded man is babblingThen a crack-springe like a sword our of daylight overhead. again.

slash beneath them all; the earth the sergeant behind him he climbs "What in it, sir?" the subaltern breaks ander their feet and tilts the shifting heap, the earth sighing says. "Looks like one of

those like jagged squares of pale fudge, beneath him and whaling down things the Canadians had.

A Ross framing a black yawn out of which, ward. Right?"

"French," the captain "1914".

like a silent explosion bursts: the The injured man begins to wall no dead! A'm..... no Kaya: unmistakable smeli ..of rotted-flesh. again, "A'm

While they serambio, and leapr{indend!" until his voice goes. Into "Oh," the subultern) anys. Helenco now; there has been no high sustained screaming. Some turns the rifle aside with his toe. sound since the first man.screamed) fone lays a hand over his mouth. The bayonet is still attached to the from one cake to another, the cakes. (Continued on Page 18.) .. barrel, but the stock has long since tilt-and- slide until the whole door rotted away. They go on, across of the valley rushes slowly under uneven ground, among the them and plunges them downward. chalky knobs thrusting up through|into darkness. the soil. Light, the wan and A grave rumbling rises into the drowsy sunlight, is laked in the sunlight on a blast of decay and of valley, stagnant, bodiless, without faint dust which hangs and drifts lu the faint air about the black thrusts orifice,

24th Dec. the

heat.

Thurs., Wod,

7th Dec, ård. Jan..

The

sabre-like grass

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Steamer.

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CONSIGNEES. of Cargo ars hereby parsely and rigidly upward. They The captain, feels himself plunginformed that all Gooda - ara, being - look about again at the shaling ing down a sheer and shifting wall landed at their risk into the Godownu of the Hong Kong, and: Kowloon Walls, then the ones at the head of of moving earth, of sound of terror Wharf & Gedows Company, Lady at the party watch the subaltern pause and of struggling in the ink dark Kowloon, whence mod/or from the and prod with his stick at one of Someone else screams. The scream wharyen delivery, may be obtamed, at Optional Cargo will not be landed Tuesday, 8th: Dod, the chalky knobs and turn presently ceases;, he hears the voice of the

unless notlos has been given di upward its earth-strained eyesockets wounded man coming thin and rel-hours prior to vessel's arrival but and its unbottomed grind, 1956 (terant, out of the plunging bowels carried on from port, to port to the "Forward," the captain saye of decay: “A'm no dead' A'm no final part of to which the option

arlands of call to wh Sharply. The party moves the men deadly No claims will be

· be admitted after. 6th Dec, look quietly and curiously at the a hand had been laid on his month,

Guoda have left, the Godown, and skull as they pass. They go on Then the mosing cilit down which all Goods

undelivered 2nd Dec among the other whitish knobs like the captain plunges slopes grad- the ard proximo, will be subject to

marbles-studded at random in the mally on and shoots him, uninjured, claims against the casual Eliadlow soll.

on to a hard floor, where he lies be presented to the undersigned on or "All in the same position, do you for a time on his back while across before.the 12th proximio, Shey, will notice, sir the subaltern says, his his face the lightward and airward not be recognised" 8th Des voice chatilly cheerful all upright seelding Blast of death and dissolu

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the vibera crowd'on after the officers Then he begins to me the passing the two, bearers and the the Jucked shape of thei whanded man Dinna stop to gi's month high overhead, and the aupiwabertöne of the beareva mayai/vergeant in banding oven:bi "AW drink.

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