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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934.

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*ALIPORE RAWALPINDI +*BHUTAN

KATSAR-1-HIND **BEHAR

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Marseilles, Havre, London,

THE

CHINA MAIL.

Bringing Insull Back to Face Justice

The . Exilona, American freighter on which Samuel Insull, former Chicago utilities czar, and his official "escort," Burton Berry, Third Secretary of the American Embassy at Istanbul, voy. aged from Smyrna, Turkey, to the United States. Inset Captain Wenzel Babel, commander of the Exilona.

The Passing Of Chantie The Curlew

(Continued from Page 12.)

drifta, no man can say, but some- thing penetrated the great carcass so that the bear halted, and, turn- ing, upreared himself, as though to: put an end to so, outrageous a situation.

NEW ISLE SPOUTS FIRE.

Volcanic Activity In Chisima Group

The fiery little island which bobbed up in the Chishima group He stood like a glant of a man,

Chantie, seeing this, realised that in January was spouting are and his lean arrow-shaped head turned savagely at the pestering team, his her race was nearly run, and what smoke recently according long binck claws distended, his mas- there was left for her to do must wireless message from the capain be done very quickly. Therefore sive forearms reaching nearly to the

At his she crept up as close as she dared, of the s.a. Otaru Maru. centre of the igloo dome.

The circumference and height of Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London flanks danced the dogs, weak with and, dropping on one knee, wedged

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & hunger, jaws open, nostrils wrinkled, the butt of Metauk's spear into the island have also greatly in- staggering as they attacked, their cranny of projecting lee, sloping the creased since it was first observed.

IV. Rotterdam, Antwerp &

Hull.

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strong against the weak, to which there could be but one end.

enmity. It was a battle of the directly at the great white chest. died down but the presen eruption "Come, Ot coward with the spirit is reported to be bigger than that of a fish," she quavered shrilly, which accompanied the island's As Chantle crept into view the "and I will throw your entrails to birth. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & brute dropped to all-fours, recognis- the dogs."

The white pyramid swayed for- ing a new and different opponent.

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Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. The man amell came to him, and be ward to bring thle pigmy assailant Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, stood, awaying with a slow rockdng within reach of the thick forearms. late had roamed the frigid spaces

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &motion, while instinct moved dia- Chantle involuntarily shut her of the North.

The life of the white bear was turbingly in the sleek skull. Then eyes, for the lean head was now the old woman heard a roaring in directly above her own. Then amid row theirs, and flowed mysteriously the furious barking of the team she through every vein. Their falter- her ears that came from her own; pounding heart, and made one weak, heard a choking grant. The spearing heart-beats steadied, their chill- shoft quivered and bent. She could ed limba grew warmer, till present-

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hunter.

It was only a pin-prick, and drew seo nothing, the world being blotted ly sleep crept in through the igloo no blood, but it roused in the beast out by the huge overhanging body, door and spread its beneficent cloak the inherent timidity of man which but her stiffened arm grew suddenly over the home of Metsuk the lurks in all animals, great and wet. small, so instead of one swift stroke:

For an instant thus while the vast But there was one whom sleep did of the broad paw that would have weight seemed to poise above her, not reach. Chantie sat silent in the crushed out whatever life remained till, with a crack, the shaft splin-gloom, waiting for the sands of life in Chantle's withered body, the lord tered in her grip, she felt some- to run out. She managed to light] of the North lunged at the frenzied thing stinging and searing bite into the stone lamp by using a little of doga and began to shuffle toward her side. Then the heavens fell the bear's fat, and lafd the rest of the distant hills. Simultaneously and crushed her into the snow. The the meat close by the faces of the the old woman,

who by this time last thing she heard was a muffled sick ones so that by no chance could had cast away all fear, perceived barking that sounded as though it they miss it. that with him would go all prospect came from a long way off.

She pulled in the sinew fishing- She struggled back to conscious-line and rebaited the bone hook. If B.L. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for of food. And it was for food that 1st and 2nd clusa passengers.

she had made ready to die. ness a little Inter, feeling that her pass that. She arranged the broken now he would not It must be that In times of utter side was on fire and her face buried a salmon came EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, stress humanity is able to discard in fur, close and choking, making spear with its stained blade by all human weakness and clothe it-it hard to breathe. Slowly her eyes Metauk's side, that her son might self with prodigious if transitory cleared. She was partly under the not accuse her of carelessness, for powers. In such periods the vital bear, which was lying still with the good spears were 'scarce on Beau- flame achieves an unwanted bril-dogs guzzling at his rent flanks, fort Sea. Then because her breast 3rd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & Hance before it flickers into dark-while the double-edged spear pro-was burning so that it hurt horribly

Melbourne.

ness, and mortality scales hitherto jected stiffly from the prone carcass, even to breathe, she pulled the hood

Chantic had unconquered heights. So it was

feeling

of of her walrus-skin tunic over her with Chantle, the Curlew.

triumph, but only of extreme weak-head, and lay down on the floor The knowledge that those few nese. The fire and the frenzy had with her face against the igloo wall. old, old There was nothing more she could Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan who were left to her, and whom she passed, leaving her an

loved with all her pagan soul, were woman, wounded to the death, and remember to do. salvation depended on the oblation with her final offering yet unmade. Kours passed. Unorri, the North The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New(sick and starving, and that their There was little time now in which Wind, ceased to moan, and over the Zealand, Vancouver, Ban Francisco, etc.

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of her own worn-out body, was all-to make it. sufficient. The strength of youth She managed to twist herself strange calm. The stars came out and flowed back in a swift, penultimate free, and with ultimate effort dis-and with them a quivering Aurora tide, bringing with it a strange fire lodged the spear. The dogs took no that shook its gleaming banners in that crept through vein and sinew notice of her, being too busy the zenith and shed a soft radiance and, revived wild memories of days stuffing their empty ballien with, hot over the home of Metauk long past. Her fingers stiffened meat. The spear, she found WRI The satiated dogs curled up and over the spear, and she stood up-but a poor cutting instrument, and slept, while four gaunt forma stole right, straighter than she had stood it took precious moments to hack down from the hills towards the since the day when Oulibut went off a lump of dripping flesh. Even stiffened body of the white bear. into the igloo. with the walrus taak as she toiled at this the strength All else was motionless, breathless on top.

Iran out of her like water, and her and empty, a vast and stinging vold Her stiff fingers became caked with a above which the springing dome of She was not old any more.

diamonded aky rose with 'a great voice came back, displacing the griely glaze. raven-like croak of later years, and Then the snow. fell again like a encircling sweep. with that velce, vibrant and con- ghostly blanket in which she pitted It was nearly morning before temptuous, she addressed the ber dwindling vitality against the Metauk moved. He felt better- dwindling figure of the lord of the onslaught of storm and bitter cold, and not nearly so hungry." His lide North:

She did not think at all, but only opened more freely. Turning, his "Are you then a rat and the son laboured, her lips set tight, a mouth touched meat. It was frozen of many rats that you run from a strange flicker in her glassy eyes. solid, but what difference! He curlew? Do your knees knock to And with every movement it was a began to tear at it, driving in hia gether while you seek, shelter with though the spear were penetrating strong. teeth with ever-increasing your wife who hides under the her own tortured side. The anal energy. Presently he stopped est- anow that the may bear you à son pblation was nearly made now.ing and puckered his copper-colour- in peace? Your hide is thick but Ten minutes later, 's Metauk, who ed brows.

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your blood is thin, and your heart was lying motionless in his skin "Is it then Pitoluk' who has KIII-] like that of the small cross-beaked sleeping-bag, felt something: fam-ed the bear that. I dreamed was birds that come when the sun is illar touch, his mouth. He could climbing on the root of the igloo, overSONS pull your heart out and give it to too swollen, but every fibre in his derisively, "Is it perhaps that an Federated. Mainz, Miata, haa warm. Stop, therefore, that I may not open his lips because they were or," and, here the hunter chuckled the Chines populaise

the dogs."

famished body thrilled to the taste aged curlew with no feathers in constantly decreasing as a m Now whether it was the dogs of Trish ment. There was no wake her tail has gone out and brought of vigorouslmont gratis that snapped at his heels or the ing whence. It plma, nor could me the heart of the Jord of the adopted by Biz Csert Cramstadt),

In 1981, 1879. Chli effect of this stream of decision Willigoo or Nanook put the question, Nartalma pored out by the ancient one as strength from the wild body that so. But Chantle, the Curlew, did not loft & the Malay | zhe stumbled, rasping through the but

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