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From
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**BHUTAN
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CARTHAGE **SOUDAN
6,000 10th Nov.
6,300 18th Nov. 15,000 17th Nov. 4,100 24th Nov.
--15,000 st Dec. 7,000 8th Doc.
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RAWALPINDI RAJPUTANA
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CHITRAL CARTHAGE
17,000 15th Dec. 15,000 20th Dec. 8,000 5th Jan.
-17,000 12th Jan. 10,000 26th Jan. 7,000 2nd Feb.
17,000 9th Feb. 17,000 23rd Feb.
6,000 2nd Mar. 16,000
9th Mar 15,000 23rd Mar.
Destination.
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S'pore, Penang, Colomb, Bombay, Marseilles & London. -
Bombay, Marsailles, Harre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilion, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hall,
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
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Bombay, Murs., Havre, London, Ham- burg, R'dam. Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles and London.
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Cargo only. † Calls Gamblanes.
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The murdered- King- Alexander II The history of Jugoslavian monarchy in written in blood. (shown in the centre above after his assassination in Marseilles, France), was given the throne of his father, Pater I (centre below), over the head of his elder brother, George, whose murderous re- putation caused him to be considered too dangerous to wear the crown. Peter came to the throne through the murder of Alexander I and Queen Draga (left), in the royal palace by the same group of Serb assassins who incited Gavrilo Princip (right) to kill Archduke Franz Fordinand at Sarajevo in 1914.
WINDFALLS
asked Sally dully.
(Continued from TERRORISTS WIDOW
COMMITS SUICIDE
Page 10)
Ties Child To Tree:
Before Death
"Headstones," said Mr. Vidler.jhouse. Her box had gone that too showy. We never had more morning; she had only an empty than wooden boards-a many hasn't basket in her handa; even the but mounds. Headstones won't geraniums weren't hers to take.
A woman who claimed to be make no difference at the blessed She wanted to see the bride the wife of Sze Tsaitang, the Judgment."
She stared as the girl got out of terrorist who bombed the first "You've stopped 'em making it?" the gig; a pastly slip was Elsie, train on the Peking-Mukden with rabbit jaw and hollow chest, Railway after through traffic "Well, the cost kept rising every and teeth dotted with decay. But was resumed, committed suicide time I seed young Martin-and she was very young; she had a lot in. Peking recently because her them babies, with two names each, of yellow hair pulled out under a husband had been arrested and as the missus thought of when she lace hat, she had a amart bluejexecuted by the authorities.-
bit light-headed like it crepe dress and silk stockings, and A letter disclosing the suicide seemed foolish. And as he hadn't she owned pretty eyes and kept was found attached to the cloth- got no names on, young, Martin shid as he'll sell it to old Smith for his son. There's the text, but
was, a
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Bally stood still by the drawer
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towards Mr. Vidler. He glanced at the broad expanse and went on!
"I'm getting married agin, Sally. The daughter of the man what keeps the Vine. Leaves at Tenterden Ain't natural for a man to live single."
Sally did not move. "You'll stay on?" asked Mr. Vidler. "Elsie'll want help."
"I'm not staying;" said Sally thickly. "As soon as you're suited I'll go."
"You ain't thinking," said the farmer, taboriously, "of anything- what the missus said?"-
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muttered the woman, pushing the dishes into place.
giggling.
"Waras than the missus child-bearing," thought Sally.
She did not speak.
ing of a small child bound to a for tree, outside Peking city. The child, according to the letter, was the woman's son and had been adopted as his son by a farmer.
so
The bride ran into her home, exact, so spotless, so ordered as the result of another woman's tall. Sally moved away.
Mr. Vidler looked at her awk- wardly.
"Don't go empty-handed," he said; he looked at the ruddy-apples lying on the shaven grass. Take some of them windfälls in your basket-they're a Ane flavour, as windfalls,"
(The End).
King Alexander- Haunted Monarch
(Continued from Page 8)
It was only six days before the murder of the Austrian Archduke "You're sensible and humble- minded," remarked Mr. Vidler with Franz Ferdinand at Serajevo that King Alexander was raised to the relief. "Allers was-humble."
rank of Prince Regent by his ail "Yes, I'm humble," said Sally. "I'm sorry you can't stay, Sally ing father. Almost immediately -but Elsie, well, she's near a lady, afterwards the Great War started, town bred, as you might say; per- and Belgrade was the first city to Regular monthly allings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan hops it's better you should go. receive an enemy shell..
For the first months of the "She have different ways," said campaign the Serbs realated auc- cessfully, but in 1915 they were Sally.
The apples swelled and flushed; unable to resist Mackensen's great the firet light winds of autumn, drive against them, and Prince
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Into the garden by Sally's row of ence of accompanying his ragged, geranium alips; Mr. Vidler went sick, starving, and broken army
heavy,
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On the day the farmer was coming home with his bride she prepared the house for them; she atretched the sheets on the big bed;
she laid the pillows side by side she drew the coverlet smooth; she laid the supper and put out her pies and cakes; she had the kettle boll ing for tea, an
The piano and gramophone were in place now; Sally dusted them too; she was only the servant,
It was there that the Serbian Another, diamonds was led and Army took part in the victorious West won with the Ace, but, know- attack which brought Bulgaria to ing nothing of South's concealed sign the first armistice of the war, heart suit, West returned another
and the triumph of the Allied cause round of spades. South ruffed and brought with it for Serbia the in- was able to discard three of the corporation of the former Austrian clubs in Dummy on his hearts, thus seaboard Slav province of Croatia, making his doubled contract, losing
15. Curse Of Violence only one club and the Ace of In 1921: Prince Alexander auc- trumps,
ceeded, on the death of his father, The hand, played in a team-of
On the big expanse of the wide to the crown of the country of four match, resulted in the same chest of drawers she laid the which he had already for long final contract at the other table, but as South there had bid both his painted-sachet she counted her been the virtual räter, shillings and wondered what the His realm of Yugoslavia was suits, West switched to the clubs headstone cost.
far from an easy one to govern, as soon as he took the diamond puerences of religion, language, Ace, and thus South, was set one and culture divide the Croats trick
"With all them hables' names, she thought with slow passion, "same as missus thought it out Cynthia Jane, chu Bertha Lily, and Irene Mary!!!
from the Serbs of Old Serbia, and
Clement ferce local jealousies soon develop hard routine of admini
ed into separatist tendancies.
But the curse!
As the wedded couple were due In 1929 King Alexander assumed market she went upstairs heavily again and Whist
the magpies in the glaas Powers.
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