1935-03-09 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1935

The Central British School Football team who have had a very successful senson. Great credit in due to the master in charge of football, Mr. W. Mulcahy, who is seen sealed third from the right.-(King's Studio),

The Central British Schon! prefects for 1935-1936. On each side of the Headmaster are Miss Bascomb" and Mr. Rowell, menior-mistress and senior master, respectively-(King's Studio).

The Central British School Net ball team who have shown great

promise recently,-(King's Studio).

"MANUFACTURERS

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Continued Progress Shown

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FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL

REPORT

WORK FOR FLOOD REFUGEES

Authorities Allot Land

To 7,000

Seven thousand refugees, from flooded areas in Shantung are to be drafted into the Litsun and Chan- hua districts in the lower region of the Yellow River for ploneering i work. Each person is to be allotted The forty-Eight Ammual Report fifty mow of land while the provin- of the Manufacturers Life In-clal authorities will provide the re- surance Company for the year fugees with food until they can sup ending December 31. 1934, sub port themselves. mitted to Policyholders and Shareholders at

the Annual

Meeting, shows a year of con- tinued, progress.

RECORD NORWEGIAN BABY

A baby boy weighing nearly 141⁄2 Now Insurance amounting to lb. is reported to have been born $61,388,356 was written during the at Sürna, Norway. The baby was year, bringing the total Insurance mother is the wife of a smith, over 22 inches long at birth. The in Force to $508,078,583.

Payments to Policyholders and Anders Aabo, and this is her ninth Beneficiaries totalled $16,170,589, child. Both are doing well.

year.

The Rev, G. E. 8. Upadell, M.A., H.C.F., C.LB.E., who succeeded Mr. J. Ralston, M.A., as Headmaster of the Central British School a short". time ago (King's Studio).

CAT KILLS SMALL CHILD

Tragedy In English Village

To-day's Short Story,

The Ringed

Word

ONWAY MARK. Conway

By T. 0. Beachcroft

Mark Conway Mark. How the still night magnifled the The footsteps would begin in noise. Mark was in the same field; a moment. His heart was beat-now just at the foot of the hill.. ing Now he might do it pat. The path wound up the steep hill Arthur shrank and shuddered close to the hedge where Arthur back into the darkness of the waa hiding, Mark came on. As hedge, crouched with beating he passed the hedge Arthur roRe heart and quick-drawn, breath, quietly to his feet and, keeping a like a wide animal waiting for a few strides behind, followed. Ha deadly foe to pass.

saw how the full glure of moonlight

MONDAY'S STORY

Then he caught. Mark's footsteps. tell on the side of the chalk-pit; Patpat... now the noise of his thew hito clefti n the hill-side shone feet rang on the distant read clear in the night as if a searchlight wore na forze strokes; then the sudden on it.. quiet, as he took the grass path The field gate clicked a quarter of a mile away.. And the night was so still he could hear his mytered cough. The bright frost and blaz- ing moonlight preserved, the faint- est eruption of sound. Soon would) come the delicate scrunch of the frosted earth beneath his feet. Unsteady footsteps.

Monday's story will be “Civilisation," by R. Herne- kin Baptist.

A few yards ahead of him Mark s Here they came. True to time wards. The moment was near. "At dark figure toiled and stumbled up- The Government's time. Arthur the top of the hill the path turned thought, since that alone would the white cleft in the hill-aide shone make his stop drinking at ten-and along the edge of the chalk-pit then every night. Blind to what chasm. The naked edge. Mark was around the footsteps going swayed along in front; beside him home: not using his facultler: was the white cliff which dropped faculties reduced to footsteps: the sheer and disappeared in shadowa noise of the footsteps-pat. Alter-

beneath.

nate, mindless: full blown, his sins On touch; the sudden pressure of

shoulder

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Arthur crouched in the hedge could feel the sensation of the two against shoulder. He listening, straining, quivering; the shoulders meeting: a sudden thrust leavea and brambles, drained of I'm colour in the vivid moonlight, the imagination it was almost done.

sorry-my God!-in blackened roots, the grass tufta Fifty yards further on past that cobweb-grey at his feet, strained black bush would be the point; he and listened with him,

Mark was near now: the little of times, a thousand times. That had marked it by daylight a score gute at the foot of the hill shrieked was the sheerest, deepest fall, the and fell to with an iron clangour craggiest landing.

Personal Par

In the last fifty yards he felt exultingly excited: the body quiver- ing, the mind outside it. He would)| touch Conway Mark now. Around Mr. K. R. Roxburgh, of Mesara, his name all images of hate waking John I Thornycroft, arrived in the nightmare of broad daylight, the Colony "yesterday from Shanghai man without good, the child who by the .s. President McKinley, had run with a tord and put it on

the fire.

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Mr. C. F. J. Quarles Van Ufford, General Manager of the Java,

He poised himself, to do it, than ve yards ahead, now twenty, now stopped Mark stumbled algne China Japan Line, arrived in Hong lost in the darkness. Arthur wait Kong yesterday by the 8.8. Preaf

dent McKinley from Shanghai, Mr. ed, listening, unable to move," Van Ufford who is accompanied, by heard the iron gate clang to. Some

From the foot of the hill he had; ha wife, are on a pleasure tour of the Orient.

body was coming. He walked from the edge of the pit to the hedge, again. No one came up the path:

Mr. F. Godber, a Director of the no one in sight. The gate had East

Asiatic Petroleum Com swung in the wind: or a dog had pany of London; accompanied by pushed it. No one ever came that Mrs. Godber, is a passenger on the way so late. 8.8. President McKinley en route to Manila.

He crouched for a long while. He closed his eyes and the fron clang went on and on. At the Mra. Marion S. Winston, a critical moment always that fron wealthy and socially prominent re-note, and the agony of having done sident of Boston, Masa., is passing it and finding it still undone lived through the Colony on the s.8. over and over again. And the iro President MoKinley, en route

to ical clang. Manila.

1. Arthur Clifford looked through his library shelves: took out books Mr. Andrew J. Okia, Export here and there, flicked over the Manager of the American Pencil pages, and with an abstracted atr Co., is a visitor to the Colony by replaced them... Finally he chose the 8.8. President McKinley. He is one, and carried it to his armchair.. on an annual tour of the Orient He poured coffes from a tall silver pot, port from a cut-glassd decan-

Col.

F. P. Nosworthy, D.S.O., ter, and selected a cigar. His ex- M.C., accompanied by Mrs. Nos-periments had gone too well during worthy, left the Colony for England, the morning to be hurried further yesterday by the R.M.S. Empress of that day.. Russia.

Col. Nosworthy has been He smoked and sipped, the book attached to the Staff of the China lying unread on his knee. By day- Command as G.8.0.1. for the past light, by the daylight of after lunch, two and a half years.

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Iron gate still rang in his inibe THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL

Mr. P. W. Parker, President of but now without any trace of the Standard Vacuum Oll Company horror. He had been on the polit of New York City, accompanied by of accomplishing it when the gate, his wife and niece, Miss Barbara had swung in the wind; nothing A mother found a cat asleep Rice, is a visitor to the Colony by more. He had hesitated rightly:

SMOTHERED IN SLEEP

across the face of her three-month- the a.a. President McKinley. Mr. his self-control was wisdom: his

fall had been reasonable.

Yet why should the gate, have

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In Paint

Man Dies From Wound ACTION"

20 Years Old

paid to living policyholders, In- dividends to policyholders, the same in his perambulator in the garden. Orient. Of such payments. $12,205,750 were $4,827,003 represents reserve for old son, whom she had left sleeping Parker is on a pleasure tour of the retreat to the hedge, even his fear, cluding $2,523,893 in dividends, and scale of dividends to be continued The baby was dead. Ho had been $3,964,889 to beneficiaries in death in 1935. claims,

suffocated. Assets stmounted to $124,822,028, is under the management of Mr Mrs. Robert Wright, of Welham, of the Standard Vacuum Of Com- and he sat motionless: then he CAR LICENCE

The Chief Office for South China The child belonged to Mr. and Chairman of the Board of Directors while his cigar burned unheedod

Mr. George Saw of Directors while his cigar burned unheeded NOVEL RENEWAL OF "DEATH BY ENEMY an increase of $5,362,036 during the E. J. B. Mitchell 0.3E. who has near Retford, Nottinghamshire, pany of New York, and Mrs. Wal- smiled and turned to his coffee and

The assets include Govern had 21 years of business experience Mr. Wright, is a dairy farmer den, are also visitors to the Colony port. It was an absurd notion, Dipped His Old Licence ment, Government Guaranteed. fn Hong Kong and who is fully Municipal, Public Utility and other capable and willing to give advice the cat had never beer seen to go They are on a similar tour.

At the inquest It was stated that by the 6.a. President McKinley, more night thought. That was just bonds amounting to $59,212,484, to anyone on the subject of Life, near the child before. First Mortgages on Improved Real Endowment and Educational In-

where reason supported him again: Estate amounting to $28,099,170, surance, in addition, to Pensions

[simply a trying test of resolution, Dr. E. B. Nocht, a prominent private to himself and Investments of $2,958,997 In and Annuities, and Investment

A Rotherham man, Evander It was revealed at a Stepney Preferred and Common Stocks, All Policies. The Office is on the 2nd

Physician of Hamburg, la among He fell to glancing through his Aldane Bramhall, dipped an ex-inquest that William Keil, aged the passengers on the s.5. President book, not reading It, but searching pired car licence in paint to make 89, died as the result of a gun- securities have been valued within Floor, Asiatic Building.

McKinley on route to Manila.

for something. All his books were it the same colour as current 11-shot wound the requirements of the Dominion The Canta Office is under the

marked for their bearing on one Department of Insurance, management of Mr. R. K. Batche-nounces that the weight of letters

received 20 years ago subject: there were certain loved cences. Polley and Annuity Reserves lor who has also had over 21 years ben

passages, he approached with were increased to $106,019,204, the business experience in Canton and ing same standard of valuation being this office is situated at 187, The used as in former years. Special Bund, Canton,VARNA Reserves and Surplus funds, exclu-The Company, is also represented in sive of capital stock, Increased to in Swatow by Mr. F. Murer, and in latter 38.888.299o. which amount Macao by Mr. A. A T. Borges,

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WITCHCRAFT RELICA

who serving in the Great War

It cost him 20 at Sheffield Po-Keil, went to France with the physical sense of coming pleasure. lice Court The skeleton hand of Mary But as he glanced a strange mark

first Territorial division in 1915. „was hanged at:

*Fort exhibiting

blet Dr.Az Piney, patho (caught his sys: a red ink line in the

rin qadrsingle word circled.

itation of a lice in red:'a data:of thi arg tor-car he was fine fore, with two smeļį query marks; using a car

(Continued on

borough,

ight in for

don auction

815 at a

Lat/said

that death was due

pericardi

ona

tis, set up

The coron

Guth

Road Fr licence he was fined £5.

recorded a verdict

Death

Enemy Action.