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1934.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1934

The view in Bay Front Park as Edward Hayes (left) retiring Nat Jonal Commander, called the six- teenth annual convention of the American Legion to order. Seventy-five thousand travelled from all parla of America for the great meeting of the World War veterans.

The House Where Something

Was Wrong

Continued from Page 91.

"Stop a moment till I change my of the men position," said one Carrying him. They paused and

Madame seized the handle and turned, it.

"Parbleu!" grunted one of the men, "the door is locked. Where is the key?".

"Joseph," shouted the tortured woman, "the key of your master's Bombay, Mars, Havre, London, Ham-placed the farmer on the ground. room. It is on the table in the big They wiped their brows, and one of room. Hurry, hurry," she cried

down the staircase. them said suddenly:"

"It is not there," replied the boy a moment later.

burg, R'dam, Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Mareilles and London.

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1934.

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"Did anyone pick up his gun?" "What gun? I didn't see a gun anywhere."

"Did you look for it?" "Everywhere-alt round, but it wasn't there.".

There was a queer silence.

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Fleet

Extracts published in Orders from the quarterly returns

of signalling between H.M. ships and British merchant vessels for the period ended June 30, 1984, show that a total of 1,143 success- fal exercises were car-rlew out, as

compared with 1,285 for the pre vious quarter.

I cursed this confusion and tried to help to find the key myself.

Boya and maids were running about searching everywhere and There were five failures to estab- getting in each other's way. From lished communication. Special ‘at» -"But-but wasn't he hunting, above I could hear the low anxious tention has been paid since the War sobbing of the wife who saw her to the improvement of communica- Madame Celeste?"

husband dying.

..tion by signalling between warships "Look in the drawer of the little and merchantmen, as so much may It in case of emer- room," she cried, "Perhaps it is depend upon

goney, and on the whole the signal there."

staffs of the merchant vessela have responded well.

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mon

cried the

work

Although it means extra they have shown keenness in volun- teering to exercise signals whenever And then a moment later the keyBritish warships are met at sea.

"Ah,

Dieu," agonised wife, "how should I know? There is my poor Jean dying on the

"It isn't there." came a voice. "Oh. my God, this is awful!" she ground, and you see his life-blood

moaned. "Can nobody find that I beg of you, take him up again." ebbing away while you gossip. Oh,

"He is not bleeding any more,"key? Ah, my poor Jean, my poor

Jean." said one of the men. He looked at the still form closely, holding the Jantern to the farmer's face, was discovered. "Grand Dieu, I think he's" He stopped.

"Ah, heaven above, it cannot be possible!" said the wife, weeping afresh. "Jean, Jean! Oh, Lord, if, he should have died......"

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"It was in your apron hanging | up in the big room," said one of the boys.

The door was opened and the wounded man placed on the bed.

As the men put him down I remem-

SETTLEMENT FOR WORKLESS

The wounded man opened his eyes,bered, for the first time since all 7,000 Mow For Returned

the excitement, had started, the odd and I thought he was going tol

impression I had always had of speak...

"Don't speak, my darling," she this house, for the strange atmos. cried, "don't fatigue yourself." She phere which I had noticed seemed

become intenas, turned to the men again. "Take to have

pervading living.

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Unemployed Chinese who have been forced to return to this country are to be provided for in Ja specially planned village settle They got on their way at once,

ment in Anhwet province. There was a moment of silence but they hesitated to go too fast

Seven thousand mow of, land the been purchased in has 7,000 28th Dec, Manila. Rabu Arishane, Sydney & for fear they might shake the re- while the wife, bent, over her hus

maining spark of life out of the band, crying on him to speak to hor. Hsuanning district and the com- 1st Feb.

Melbourne, and Robart.

half-dead man But always, as if There was no answer, for the man mittee in charge of this settle- half-demented, the woman stumbled was dead. Those who had carried ment will have the responsibility after them crying, "Quickly, him removed their caps, and stood of selecting 200 Chinese from quickly."

looking sorrowfully at the woman overseas to start work on this From his place by the fireside in weeping over ber man. She drop territory next month. As an in- Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan the big room the old man could seeped to her knees and rocked herself dication of how badly the de-

the party arrive, and he began to to and from

Ipression has affected Chinese cry like a child. I want to see my "It only," said one of the men, overseas, it is being pointed out son," he repeated again and again. "we had brought the doctor at the that the remittances to this coun- "He is badly wounded," said a beginning we might have saved try from abroad has dropped by man as, led by Madame Celeste, him."

two thirds at $8,000,000 last Sun Deck Swimming Pool they made their way to the narrow, The old man is crying below," year. The number of Chinese dark staircase which ran to the said another. "Someone had better going abroad have also decreas ed considerably in number while bedrooms. Then suddenly the light go and attend to him."

"I shall go," said the wife, rising whose returning are increasing. noticed that the candle was very and wiping her eyes. "Oh, my poor Last year less than 130,000 Chinese went abroad while 270.- smail, and wondered when it would Jean."

She left the room, and when she 000 returned to this country. was halfway down the stairs I fol- The men stood with their burden lowed her. I can hardly account in the darkness while all sorts of for my action, but felt myself cries went on around them impelled to follow her. Something "Where do you keep the candles, told me she was not going to the big room where the old man

coom where the

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1934.

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Madame Celeste?"

"They're in the kitchen, I think. was. Quickly; quickly, for he love of She went on down to the cellar, heaven" I could hear her sob inferying and whispering her. Down the steep steps she went, the damp the darkness.

dirty steps of the cellar, and softly, A silence.

FISH FIGHTS BIRD TO DEATH

Grim Drama On Lake. Near Nahant

A gull swooped angrily to the "They're not in the kitchen. softly, I followed her. At last she waters of a lake near Nahant. stopped well in advance of me. Massachusetts. At the same Where are they?"."

Bobbing had ceased. Itime a large fish glided up to his head? Oh, Seigneur, will some-straightened anyself against the wards the surface, body and a candle? Perhaps they're wall.

"Ah, mon Dieu; has everyone lost The

in the big room below-I can't re- "Felix" she whispered. Her In a few seconds bird and fish

were in mortal combat. member. Look for them, Jean; voice was a hard sa flint.

"Yea? Is it 18 it all right?" The fish, an angler or goose Jean, my poor Jean."

There was no reply to this, and The man's voice which came in fish, weighing more than 40lb, snapped its jaws over the gull's then come the voice of a maid.reply was choked with fear.

"It is, but no thanks to you, head: "Madame Celeste, are the candles

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not in the celler? They're not in Could you not do it properly? You The bird, beating its winga the big room-eh, here they are only wounded him, you fool, and desperately in the When a woman appeared, with a had I not used my wits on the way struggled to get free. candle the procession continued its and played for time with those The encounter ended fatally THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

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As she came up the stairs room for two persons to mount that staircase abreast and then they stepped out.

THE END stopped outside the bedroom door,

When bird and fish were haul- ed out of the water, the gull's head was still in the fish's mouth, both were dead from exhaustion.

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