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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934.
Crouching behind a metal guard to protect themselves against the Intense heat, Bremen are shown fighting the disastrous fire which followed a terrifle explosion, at an oil depot at Jamestown, -N.Y., killing five persons and injuring several workers and firemen.
CHINESE OPIUM ELAS'S
DEN RAIDED
Coup In New York's Chinatown.
SEQUEL TO MOTHER'S PLEA
New York.
An agonised mother's complaint to the police that her daughter was frequenting an opium den in New York's Chinatown, has led to the arrest of four, Chinese and the sel- zure of a quantity of opium and a pipe.
Four detectives belonging to the Narcotic Squad raided a top-floor flat in the principal street in China- four extremely &town and found
dazed Chinese stretched out in
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"I was saved. Elsa was to have, gleamed something white. It was her piano. For years, she had a funeral procession! begged for a plano, nagged about "I found out later that there had Lit. Everybody else had a piano. been a death in the flat two floors
The children were musical, but;
The undertakers' higher. their talents were being neglected stopped when they caught sight of suppose you know the run of it, the packing case obstructing the " flew up. Never before had lower flight of stairs. I heard a felt so energetic. It was still an muffled whisper: Get that case hour and a half to Elsa's arrival. down at once! Can't you see what "A taxi took me to the piano this is?' 1 whispered back: company stores. I decided on a Impossible! We'll have to try to piano about as fast as one decides get it into my flat. I nodded to- on a box of matches in tobacco wards my door. 'There'd be no shop. All I asked was that the room for you to pass down the exterior should not look too dia-stairs if we took it down. (That) reputable. My hurry aroused some was a lie, I regret to say).
The mild surprise at the store. piano was quite expensive eighty cil of war, interrupted by
deferred pounds, in
payments. bunke. On a small table they found And ten had to be paid on delivery coffin-bearers and the people be
woman's weeping, between three lbs. of prepared oplum and a
that was unconditional. Ten After glowing pipe.
hind them. Then a few black-clad) further
pounds, and all I had on me was gentlemen passed the coffin-bearers search of the flat, the prisoners were :
one! Įtaken to gaol where they are being Į
and helped me get the packing case held while the Immigration Au-! "The imminent danger at once up. They even pushed it into my thorities are investigating whether,gave me an idea. I dashed out of vestibule. But I shall never for-
wholesale deportation proceedings should be the shop and up to a
get the looks of contempt and sor- taken against them.-Reuter: merchant who had his offices in the row they gave to me, the disturber
same street. I was tutoring his of the peace. It was awful.
"It didn't take me very long to boy. The merchant was affability. ¡itself. 'He at once gave me ten open the ease with the kitchen axe pounds on account. But I saw by and get the pieces down to the his face that he Was thinking: cellar. Then I rolled the piano on Now the boy's matriculation to its castors into the bedroom, and guaranteed. It was devilish un-for the second time that day lock- pleasant. In half a shake, I was led the bedroom door and put the back at the shop, signed the con-key in my pocket. By the time I'd [tract and paid. My only condi- had a bath it was almost two. "Third day, 55th week, 1950."tion was that the plane was to be (Elsa's train was to have arrived That is how the calendar delivered within half an hour--at half-past one. Perhaps it was would read in the future if Mr. and this they promised me post-late that day). I lay down on the Shephard, a solicitor of Sydneytively. und Parramatta, were successful
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SERB'S GRIM STORY
Belgrade. Thousands of men taken pri- soner by the Russians during couch and fell asleep at once. "My hectic business activities "I was awakened by a knocking the war are still living in ing to bring about through the had made my throat dry, and on the front door of the flat, and Siberia, according to a Serb, Ulija different Rotary clubs of the allowed myself time for a whisky-when I opened it Elsa and Ruth Sarvaah, who was just returned
and-soda before going home to re-stood outside, both of them with home after 20 years' exile.
He was captured by the Rus- "There would be no months, ceive the new plece of furniture. their faces reddened with weeping.
"Welcome home, darling,' I said sians in 1915 while serving with no names of days or weeks-just I'm sure I did not stop at the pub numbers," said Mr. Shephard, more than a quarter of an hour, cheerfully, where are the chil-the Austrian army and was
After work-1 End A Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & He expects opposition to his but when I arrived at home the dren?' Ruth stood in front of Elss taken to Siberia.
proposal to divide the year into porters had already been there as if to protect her, and replied: ing at many trades he settled on MOTOR 173 weeks of five days each-four with the piano. I suppose they ""The children are in my home, the land.
He married a Russian and now TRANSPORT working days and one holy day were in a hurry to get away, since and Elsa will stop there, too, until
has a family of five. It was
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it was Saturday. The plano was we make further arrangements.' Mr. Shephard considers that neatly anclosed in a packing case. ""That's right. Till we get the only when conditions became bad in Siberia because of famine Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan the present calendar is confus-But Instead of carrying it up the place tidied up a bit."
and high taxation that he decid and Hong Kong to Australia.
ing,
He says that it hampers stairs to my door, they had left it Buth gave me a tiger's look, and ed to return. Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.
business and complicatesțin the hall downstairs.
A fresh went on: statistics.-Reuter.
misfortune. How on earth should
*Elsa has come to fetch a few I get it up the stairs?"
Indispensable articles.'
Many of the prisoners of war "Well," I Interrupted, "as long as
"A handkerchief seems to be the now in Siberia, he says, prefer you had it in the house, the sur- Bignal Day Night Description prise for Elas would be just as interposed, to dry the tears.'
most indispensable at the moment, to spend the rest of their days there to beginning life all over [good."
"Your imprudence is incredible, again in their own countries. "Don't interrupt me," Philip said Ruth. But possibly I can get
Reuter. snorted irritably, "when you don't into the bedroom now
for a
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packing case up on the lowest step. feet. Could I forgive them? Elsa drive the dog back, but Howell A theatrical limited lability And then came the difficult hoist hadn't really believed it at all. warned them not to take euch a company, to be known as "trans All I had to do was to play the risk as the dog was thought to atlantic Presentations Incor ing. Hoisting and holding back, at
be dangerous. "porated," has been registered once, you knew. It was a low magnanimous husband.
‚''"Elsa and I. had a glass of
The constable noticed that the by, the famous actors, Noel job, but I won out, inch by inch,
"When I'd got the thing balfway Moselle for dinner. I had suggest lads were carrying crackers Coward, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn up, I heard, the tramp of a lot of ed inviting Ruth to stop for dinner, and told them to light the fire Fontanne with the 'Secretary of works at the narrow end. This State for the purpose of present- feet above. And pretty soon, on but nothing came of that
ruse succeeded and the dog rush-ing musical compositions.
the fight Above my own, I could The silly fool, seid Elas, ed back to the mouth of the The capital stock of the com-
fr see black frousers legs marching making all this trouble. I should channel right into the arms of pany consists of a thousand
Blowly down. And in between say not!!!
the waiting constable-Reuter. shares of no par value.
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