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From

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About

1934.

15,000 29th Dec. 6th Jan. 5,000

17,000 12th Jan. 16,000 20th Jan.

7,000

2nd Feb.

17,000

9th Feb. 17,000 23rd Feb. 6,000 2nd Mur.

15,000 3th Star. 15,000 23rd Mar.

Destination.

Bombay, Marseilles & London, bay, Mars., Havre, London

Rotterdam. Antwerp and Hol Bombay, Marseilles & London.

no --

THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934

Representing the nation in paying homage to the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day, President Roosevelt is pictured with uncovered head while "taps" are sounded at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington cemetery. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt placed placed wreaths on the tomb

The Truants

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EUROPE, NEW YORK

(Continued From NEW YORK TRADE Inquire for round-trip tickets to

Page 9).

But never did it seem had the gar of the half-finished manuscript ever den looked in such perfect, order. doing so.

REPORTS

(Continued Frum Page 6).

'burg Here and there, upon the large beds "Oh!" The enchanting little poses and hog prices are advan- massed with General Jacqueminot smile began to fade out of her face. cing. Wheat; Total sales:-5,901,- roses, a few of the brilliant, velvety It may have been that, in that in-000 bushela, Corn:-Total sales:- red petals had fallen. Yet, rather stant, her little brain grasped the 4,628,000 bushels. than suggesting any untidiness to fact that she was a certain respon-

Mars., Havre, London Hamburg,

Ram, Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles and London.

DO

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London

DO-

"Cotton: The market was dull,

me, they hinted, as did the distant sibility to me; it may have been with potential buying needs for murmur of the ever-busy bee, of the that the sudden realisation twanged mills increasing.

"Rubber:-News in constructive] tremendous work that Nature did the strings of her adoring little silently, wonderfully, while I could heart and made her twine her little and there is a belief that invest- do nothing at all..

arms around my knee and whisperiment interests will re-establishi

It was a discomforting thought. with the sheerest suspicion of a large long lines after the end of It made me feel very ashamed. tremor: "She 'onts to come up on December. We recommend pur- couldn't stand it, and I thought that jou!" But the fact remains that no chases

now. Total sales--83

Market Factors

The following telegrams were

I would peep outside the door and sconer had I caught her up in my lots. see if anyone was about. But no arms, and no sooner were her little sooner did the thought enter my lips pressed warmly against my hend than I saw the handle being cheek than she must add, as she received by Messrs. S. E. Levy & turned very slowly, very cautiously, gravely surveyed the little red Co. from Reuter:

Favourable factors prevailing Another moment, and Jennifer en-shoes: "Dey were ever so 'spensive!!

Tost half a duinea!"

prior to the opening of the New tered the room.

Perhaps, though, I shouldn't Bay' Glancing over my shoulder, and York markets included. entered, lest I convey a wrong im-catching sight of the unfinished (1) Further increase in mill ac pression. Knowing Jennifer as manuscript that lay on my desk, tivity.

(2) Other favourable trade news, Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- do. I have little doubt that the shuddered. By now, however, every mantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the diminutive little figure wormed her vestige of hope that I had ever had apparent..

· Khadivial Mail Steamship Co.

way in with the utmost stealth. of unravelling the tangle of the But I didn't glance round to see, mystery was gone. lest in so doing I let her think that

*Cargo only.

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+SANTHIA TALMA

1934

8,000 4th Jan. S'pore, Penang and Calcutta. 10,000 18th Jan.

DO -

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means

(3) Less apprehension over the utilities questión.

Unfavourable factors included: It was a pretty pass, to be sure;

(1) November railroad reports I encouraged her to do what her and my fears were by no mother had told her not to do. It alleviated when I beard steps, which show a sharp decline in net in- was only when, after some moments I recognised as Jennifer's mother's come. of anxious fumbling, she succeeded coming down the stairs.

up.

her

Wall Street was moderately ac- Some irregularity in closing the door with the least Jennifer heard them too, but tive and firm. possible noise that I decided to look they seemed in no way to disturb has developed among utilities but composure. She beamed, if the remainder of the market has anything, more delightfully than advanced fractionally and, with She stood with her little hands she had ever done before. "Dat's sentiment. cheerful, some held behind her; but on encounter-Mummie!" she said with zest. Assion of the advance seems indicat- B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for ing my gaze she was quick to raise I suspected, she looked to me to ed. let and 2nd class passengers.

• Calls Rangoon

Call Port Sweetenham

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EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, on the door. Clearly, she was a mother would look for her in the

NANKIN NELLORE

1934.

7,000 28th Dec. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & 7,000 1st Fab.

Melbourne, and Hobart,

exten-

mixed tone. Favourable steal news was ignored.

Steel operations at Chicago were at 97 per cent. of capacity. her index finger in warning. stand by her.

E. A. Pierce Co.'s Report "Ssh!" she uttered, with an eye Banking on the certainty that her

In their market report, the

little rogue and knew it.

lounge and in the kitchen before American Oriental Finance Cor It was a difficult moment. My she ever dreamed of intruding upon paration, correspondent for Measta. duty, no doubt, was to have re-me in the throes of my work, IE A. Pierce and Company New proved her for the interruption and calculated that we had exactly two York state:

"Stocks: The market, was almost | to have led her gently but firmly to minutes in which to make our exit the door. But even if such an idea by way of the window and gain the entirely occupied with end of the which was unthinkable then-had friendly screen of the laurels at the rear adjustments, resulting in a occurred to me, it would have been bottom of the garden. quite impossible to have put it into practice. I say impossible, for

Had the necessity of our de-was derived from the firmness of never had I loved her more than I

parture not been so pressing, I eorn and the hogs and lard markets. did at that moment; never had she looked more beautiful than she did should, no doubt, have stopped to December corn was tight at times.

"Cotton: There was some further in the little smocked dress and the see if we had left any incriminat-

ing traces behind us. I might, for "poof" selling. new red shoes that she was wear instance, have observed that when "Rubber: The market was devoid would I have believed Jennifer had stolen into my study of interest within a range of two that the large, velvety red rose he'd not only made some grubby points and with a very small volume such as she clasped in one of her little finger marks on the white of trading."-Reuter

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much a part of her; and never,y locked the door and put the key jaince the night when I heard her

Jon the seat of my lounge chair. The following quotations have been wall her first thin ery could I have The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for-Southampton and felt prouder or more grateful for

Again, I might have stopped to pick received through Messra, 8. E. Levy American the divorce gift that her mother the companion cigarette and ash and Company and the

stand which, in my haste, I'd been Oriental Finance Corporation: had bestowed upon me.

She may or may not have had a clumsy as to knock over; and, some inkling of the admiration with lastly, I might have gathered up the which I regarded her, but with the petals of the rose to which she'd held on so affectionately but which, pardonable vanity of her sex the Hit nevertheless, had shattered just 28 NY. Rubber May élosed 13,29 The following quotations have, December tle minx touched her sides, gazed I was about to lift her out of the Chic Wheat-May 99% 99% been received by Messrs. S. E. Levv May

TALMA *SOMALI NALDERA NELLORE SIRDHANA RAWALPINDI *BANGALORE TAKADA

1934.

10,000 20th, Dec. 7,000 20th Dec. 18,000 28th Don. 7,000 3rd. Jan. 8,000 10th Jan. 17,000 11th Jan. 6,000 24th Jan. 8,000 24th Jan. RAJPUTANA 17,000 25th Jan. 7,000 2nd Feb. 8,000 7th Feb. 15,000 8th Feb.

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window.

cross-rate

N.Y./London

New York. Yesterday.

Prev. To-day's cloan elore

N.Y. Cotton-May

494% 4.9426

12.70 12.68

down at her feet and bearbed a

884 Chic Corn-May, ... beam that would have disarmed a

As it was, however, I didn't even Montreal Silver Mar. 5.10b 54.256

694 594 regiment.

Dow Jones Averagen "She's got some noo wed shoes," think of these things until we had Silver Official

returned from a glorious hour-of

Today's a confidential! sho whispered in

Dec. 24 close whisper of delight. "Jou sink de're truancy. But perhaps that was just

as well. My brain, by then, was 30 Industrials 100.89 100.35 20 Rails .35.57. 35.30 pwetty?"

""Ravishing!" I whispered back sufficiently refreshed for me to 20 Utilities 17.29 16.89 46 off

realise that although the woman 40 Bonds... 96.14.95.09 "utterly adorable enchanting-

who shot Mastern did take the key 11 Commodity 80.69 61.12 divine scrumptious!”

17. Leading Stocks. out of his pocket as she arranged My approval appeared to gratify the position of his body, she was Amer. Can

Amer. Smelting her exceedingly. She beamed an

compelled, lie Jennifer and myself, Amer. Tel & Tel other beam, and she edged a step to make a sudden exit by way of the Auburn Bearer. Wot Jou doin'?" he en-window-a fact that should have Case

Du Pont quired. “Writin'?"-C

It seemed as though the cloudsuggested itself more readily to Bond & Share

Inspector Lafry in view of the many General Motors had suddenly blotted out the sun,e petals that he found upon the f- & T but I nodded and tried to look

McIntyre door beneath it. though I meant it.

So the story care to be finished Montgomery Ward

Nat Distillers after all. And if you should chance NY. Central gain.""Wot to read it sometime well, you' Socony-Vacuum

know a little more about it that Union Pacidc

T.S. Steel most people, won't you?,

Wet & M THE END.

Business Done:

Jennifer beamed for?" she asked.

To pay for her new shoes," confided, but without the least hope

COMMODITY

PRICES

90 and Co. and the A.0.F.C.

July

91 8835 8614

9334 90

43 up

109

Change New York Coffon:-

34 off January .27 off

March. 05 off May July

Winnipeg Wheat: Dec. 26. Dec 27. December Clowing Closlar Mayor.

July 2

78

Market

83

88%

closed

12.48 *12.89

New York Sugar:

12.68

12.57

March

1.78

1.79

12.70

12.66

May

1.88

1.85

1271

12.67 July

2.87

1.88

October (1985).

12.58

12.54

September

1:90

· 1.92.

37% December

12.61 New York Bilk:-

102 Spot.

12.80

12.75

March

1.81

1.38

24% New York Rubber:-

May

21.89* 1.384

53% December

12.85

12.88b July

1.38%

9431

6

Januar

12.86

12.88 Montreal Bilver

82

March

-18,08 18.09

December

58.406 58.60b

8 May

13.26

13.29

March

54.10b 54.25b

40 July

13.45 13.47

May

27

28 September

19% Chicago Wheat:

13,65

13.57

July

9834

New

9936

99%

20, Dac, 26.

84

Copper March

8.25

80.65

18% December

104% May

July

Chicago Corn:-

63.600 54.85

55-250 165.55

Težnominal.

6.46 50.65