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THE CHINA MAIL,- MONDAY, MAY 20, 1935

Trade investigators in New York discovered that these Japanese-made American flags, put to gether by girls paid 17 cents a day, were taking the market away from the American-made product at a fraction of the American price: and Japanese-made school supplies such as erasers above, best- ing patriotic American designs, were getting the preference of children because of the prices which the few cents a day paid to the Japanese workers make possible.

HERCULANEUM: THE

BURIED CITY

(Continued from Page: 8.) ·

come

Around the corner you upon a communal well, with the windlass and a mass of charred rope still hanging above Its open Marseilles, Hatre, London, Hambermouth. A little farther on an en

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crusted spade, thrown hastily to Jane side when the eruption begaŭ, is now fastened to a neighbouring wall. under glass a kind memorial to the unknown who perished that day.

of

Owner

In the villas are women's trin-!

The Unconsidered Trifle

(Continued from Page 10)

with his pencil

"I suppose there's a telephone

She leant heavily on the chair. "I was looking.... for a letter."bere, sir.”*** "That you had written to Mr. Ensor?"

It seemed for a moment as if she was going to faint. But she con- trolled herself with a great effort.

"Yes.... I wrote it to him.” Then suddenly she stood upright, flooded with passion, her eyes blaz ing with fierce anger.

"He forced me to come here to-

"It's in the hall," Wilder replied “I wonder if you'd be kind enough," the inspector suggested softly, to ring up the station- Barnwell 439—and tell Constable Martin

over to Doctor along here at once? Singleton's house, and bring him I don't want to leave her."

"Certainly," wilder sald

to

מן

He went out of the room. When

| Marseilles, Havre, London, Hambo (kets, strings of beads, arulēts. iv. night," she cried. "It was my only he had closed the door behind him

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...

ing in the rooms where they were found. In one of the public baths, with its marble-benches still adher-

said if I didn't come he'd pass chance to get the letter back.

an to

someone else," Her voice broke.

it pression He his face was transformed by an ex-

of savage exultation In reaction of the moment be had to Bombay Marseilles, Harva, Londozi

check an inclination to laugh out Hamburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, &ng to the painted walls, and frag-

ments of greenish-yellow glass "He was wicked and cruel" shaloud Luck had been with him all clinging to the high round. win-sobbed "He didn't care how much the way, luck and his own astube dows under the barrel roof, are the unhappiness he brought on other ness. All be bad to do was to play skeletons of two men who were people. I didn't kill him but his part out. suffocated before they could I'm glad he's dead!"

He felt no pity for the girl, no Again she faced them' defiantly remorse.

All his life he had been "You can do what you like to me?" supremely selfish, entirely without she cried recklessly.. "I tell you. Tm scriple. He had always been con- riad he's dead! Tm glad I'm tent if the blame for his own mis-

doings fell on someone else.

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escape.

+

In The Ancient Theatre

Approximately one-fourth of glad!" Herculaneum has been extricated

said,

The thought that was uppermost in his mind as he took up the tele- phone receiver was that now the not business was all his; his ban de

falcations could be covered up; be could use or misuse as he wished

She covered her face with her from its bed. The outskirts of hands, sobbing wildly. ". the town inland may produce some "Steady on." the inspector very fine villas. equal at least to not unkindly. "You'd- better those found at Pompeii, but it will talk like that.". be a long time before they are reached.

He turned to Wilder.

He gave the inspector's message

"Well, siz you were his partner- Retärning uphill from the pit what do you think about it?”

"I can't understand it," Wilder to the police station, and went back which holds the seaward area, you

climb back into the straggling returned slowly. "I did not know to the room. High-street of Resina. A building very much about his private life. The girl had fainted when the there has a sign- announcing that but I certainly had not grounds for inspector told her she would be

B.L. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for this is the way to the amphitheatre suspecting such things as this lady charged with the murder of George! 1st and 2nd class passengers.

You go down what appears to be suggests. It is a complete surprise Ersor. When Wilder returned, the ja mine shaft, and after intermin-to me."

inspector was trying to revive ber The inspector closed his notebook,Į with whisky from the bottle.on the Ja level which is in complete dark and put it back in his pocket. table, but she did not recover until "Suppose she was telling the the doctor and the constable arrived. The guide lightens it with his truth, and he really was lying there "We'll leave Martin here with the flash-lamp, and you find yourself when she came in...."

doctor, and get her to the station," the inspector said to Wilder. “F have to question her pretty fully. Ferhaps you wouldn't mind coming,

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H. G. WELLS FINDS A NAMESAKE

Meeting At Hotel In. Washington

asking inquirers:

New York

:"

Zone 22nd July

29th July DODWELL & CO., LTD. AGENTS Queen's Building Phone 28021

HEBREW WRITING OF JEREMIAH'S TIME

At Biblical Lachish

IMPORTANT RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS

1st June Manila, Robaul, Brisbane, Sydney standing in the ancient theatre of The girl covered her face,

Herculaneum complete with stage looking at his eagerly. and tiers of

"He was!" she cried. "I swear seats. There you realise what a stupendous task still to you he was!" corfronts the rescuers of the Ro The inspector silenced her.

“Assuming it to be true for the Regular monthly sailings from Bong Kong to Shanghai and Japan man town The theatre was once

open to the skies. So it will be moment, can you, from your know and Hong Kong to Australia.

open again when the hill defending ledge of him. make any sugges Hong Kong to Sydney - 19 days. AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday.it has been eaten away by pickaxestion?"

ļand spades, and Resina has vanish- Wilder shook his head. (Suckng, Finking, Shosting, ind

ed as completely as the town it "I'm afraid I can't." he said re-obeyed mechanically, staring out hill, Masa, in Washington on busi- clude money is worth 25 per egit, mart).

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OUTLE

"

“Which Mr. EL G. Wells do you mean, please?"

Important archaeological dis- They had two guests registered key at Tell Duweir, the site of coveries made by Mr. J. L Star

too, in case any questions crop upton's Mayflower Hotel recently were Telephone operators at Washing- that you could help us with.”

"Certainly I'll come with you, Wilder replied. "I've got

my car here. We can run round in i

The inspector took the girl's arm and led her out of the room. She by that name

There was HG Wells of Haver the Biblical town of Lachish, in- 10 potsherds bearing saka straight in front of her. She seem-ness, and there supplanted upon the green slopesretfully. "For her above the Bay of Naples.

should be glad to be able to think led to be dazed and weak

was HG Wells, Hebrew inscriptions which the visiting British author. ›› that. it was true--but it really

Wilder opened the front door.

Mr. Wells of Massachuetts told appear to be written in ink. seems too plain. Of course, it's "The car is in the yard,” he said. passible...." He made a reluctant Ensor did not like cars to be left newspapermen he did not wish to Sir Charles Marston, who is qualify as an expert on world af-interested in the excavation, gesture. "But as it stands there in front of the house." doesn't seem much room for doubt." They went round to the yard.

attaches great importance to The girl sank weakly into a chair. The girl leant heavily on the in-

them on the ground that they and again buried her face in her spector's armL She had almost to

give an idea of the writing in hands. The inspector stood looking be lifted into the back of the car,

use at the time of Jeremiah, and down at her for a moment. Then and sank on to the seat as if ex-

may have valuable results for jhe went nearer to. Wilder:

hausted. The inspector shut the to him. (3

Old Testament scholarship, "You feel satisfied about it your door on her and strolled round the self?" he asked, in a low tone. front of the caz, while

started up the engine.

BRITISH FILM FIRM HAS STAFF OF TWO

Film Commences With Cast Of One.

A new motion picture company is going into production in Lon- don-with a staff of two and 2 cast of one!

The oldest member of the firm is 18 years old. The publicity agent is 16 The star is said to

"I am afraid must be." Wilder replied. "T's sorry for the girl, but it seems 2 perfectly clear case.”

“I admit it's clear enough, the Inspector agreed. "and vet" He looked at the girl again.

be about nine. The camera is don't like it he confessed probably five

tairs.

“Well?" Wilder said agata The inspector took a step closer

"The ground under the car is Wilder perfectly dry," he said slowly. “It

The potsherds were found at

was put here before the rain began the later Jewish levels in the Suddenly he took his electric When you came to the station and ruins of the Eastern Tower of torch from his pocket and, stooping anyone hear, Mr. Wilder, you had the Persian gateway, among -de- down, flashed the light under the told me that you could not make bris of a room which lay under been at this house not less than an the Persian work. They cannot be later than 558 B.C., the year which the town was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.

Wilder jumped out and came to hour and a quarter. It would be interesting to know what you were him quickly.

"What are you doing?” he de- doing." The head of this new company there's something deeper in it. Premanded sharply.

frankly. "I can't help feeling

Wilder's face blanched. For 20:

is Mr. B. V. Braun. His film is had a good deal of experience with to be the chronicle of the adven witnesses, and I believe she's telling The inspector straightened him instant his head swam.

He stared at the inspector, tures of a small provincial boy the truth The worst of it is, on self and put the torch back into his white horror growing in his fare lost in London. It will cost £50 the face of it I haven't any option pocket He looked steadily atj to make, and, it is hoped will option Wilder shown commercially.

with the murder."

a

Mr. Starkey is of opinion that

the potsherds were used to level the face of the side walls of a room before it was plastered. The in- and lay in the burnt debris lett tatter Nebuchadnezar's soldiers had assaulted and taken the city by fire

The unconsidered He stood perfectly stil spector's hand closed

"I told you I belie speaking the

He uttered tried to wrench

the gir

sbe

an hour and pinned

THE IND

"It is nearly an hour, Mr. When Mr. Braun was 17 hel Wilder's face expressed vennine Wilder," he said Setly, since the made a "short" called "Beyond anxiety.

rain stopped It sted for about the Open Road," which was “I don't see how you can hein it* three-quarters of hibited by the Film Society. His Be agreed. “I will give you all the

“Well?” Wilder Comideas for his new film were so assistance. I can in any direction, The good that he persuaded a direc- but on the evidence you have now! tor of a well-known film company I am afraid you cannot do anything to back him with the $50.

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friend became publicity age

but take her in

inspector

th, and The writing resembles that of He the Samatarian script of the Pentateuch. It contains the Divine name (Jahwe), and other names-identified are those of

aazaniah

Jeremiahi