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STAMP COLLECTORS

stamps must be a fine series. Prin- predominance

are new

Basutoland Officials

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BOUISSON

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1935

OVERCOMES

DIFFICULTIES

(Continued from Pape 1)

Of the Left-wing parties only the! Flandin-Pietry group, which com- Imands no more than 12 seats in the

To-day's Short Story.

H

How Collister Came Home

tea

By Violet Quirk

fisherman anchestors had

TE was ten years old when it In twenty minutes the ship set By A. EL

happened.

sail His father's cottage was Latest advices from South Africa Chamber, definitely promised co- Peel, naked and very wet.

He was sitting on the sand at dearly visible from the ship. Smoke! "UDGING by the advance photo-1

are reproduced seem to suggest that there are two operation with a Bouisson Cabinet had just been having a swim breath from a human body. Within graphs which

He was coming, from its chimney like bese, the Canadian Silver Jubilee sets for this Dominion, one giving The Neo-Socialists made numerous and he was drying himself in the his mother would

to the English in reservations, while the Socialists, at sun. His clothes lay on a piece kettle on and laying the table for be putting the Cess Elizabeth on the lc value, the scriptions and the other to the a meeting yesterday, flatly refused of rock beside him. Duke of York (20)" (his first ap-Afrikaans. The inscriptions will to have anything to do with

His father would be smoking, а He was staring at a sailing ship sitting by the fire. The children pearance on stamps since his boy-probably alternate throughout the "capitalist Government.”~-

that lay moured to the quay, and it would be playing on the floor hood). Their Majesties (Sc), the sheets and therefore will best

CHANCES DULLED M. Bouisson's declaration made to came upon him.

was then that the enchantment Prince of Wales

Windsor collected in pairs. (56).

But he was neither troubled nor Castle10e), and the royal yacht

the Radical Socialist leaders that than a desire: it made him forget ly, and beyond him was the ses For it was more afraid. The ship was going smooth- Brittania (13c). All are quite ori-

preliminary condition for his form everything except the need to go on It was all just as he had imagined. ginal designs, and all the portraits

Our readers will remember that ins a Cabinet was the granting of that ship and sail away on her: it It seemed as though the blood of ones as far as postage in these columns in April we quot.three. demands, namely, the usual blotted out the consciousness of his al his Stamps together to flow through lightful picture of Windsor Castle ist the numbers used of the short. the same extended powers asked for childhood, and the thought of the his veins and appears to have been taken from a lived 1934 Basutoland Officials, the by M. Flandia, but without a Par future; it sent a shining to his eyes, haze he listened to it. The enchant

sing there. In a slightly different angle from that figures being then

liamentary debate; and finally, the and to his lips a small, enraptured meat was still upon him. On his of the standard Colonial design.

inclusion of M. Herriot;, did not smile, brighten his chances of

success,

lips was still the enraptured smile. Souvenir envelopes were provid-

He slipped his clothes on his still It remained since it is very doubtful that even

there, even when he wet body, went aboard the ship, was violently shoved forward and gian Air Lines (Sabena)) - to be fures appeared to be very high ||

of the Middle and Right." would;

jacross if a boy were needed.

Then began for him a time of used on the inaugural flight of the and that its doubts were justified is at to a Socialist Premier the

“Yes.” said regular fortnightly airmail service("hown by a further latter from the

powers on which the Flandin Gor-the skipper.

the sailor. "Go to incredible hardships. He bore them! between Belgium and the Belrian Basutoland Secretariat stating that ernment has just been defeated.

silently at an age when boys are Conro. The first flight was sche 900 sets never left the South Africa!

still tucked in bed by their mothers. duled to leave Brussels on February

hat he bore them hard. The men. once land was invisible, seemed to forget they had any human rela- tionships, and that they boy, by the very fact of his childhood, deserving of consideration. They would not have treated a dog as they treated him. His dreaminess, his submission, and his complete! inability to answer back" seemned Owing to their recalcitrant at-to goad them to cruelty. He was a because they were "soft"! That was all.

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lows:-

siven as fol-

d. 927 Id., 938 24. 958 6d. 930 Our contemporary was not satis-!|

ed in limited numbers by the Bel-fed with this information as the; the Left-wing parties, not to speak and asked the first sailor he came told to find something to do.

20 and to arrive at Leopoldville on the 27th. The return light was to,

have been on March 6.

*

Italian Decision

The enormous amount or new is- Sues which have appeared in

re

cent years from Italy and her Co-

used, as follows:

A slightly more hopeful türü was given to events st 10 however by the decision of the Radical-Socialist Chamber group, with only two dissentients, to give support to the Bonisson. Cabinet, whereupon M. Bouisson visited President Lebrun and informed him of his official acceptance of the task of forming a Government. and stated that he hoped to be able

SHARP MEASURES AGAINST SPECULATORS

(Continued from Page 1)

UNIVERSITY STRIKE AT CANTON

Seven Middle School Students Dismissed

Canton. To-day-

་་

go on strike and not to take the joint graduation examination. Mr. Chow Lu. President of the Sun Yat-sen University, has dis missed seven students of the class of 1935 of the Senior Mid- Idle School of the University.

lonies has undoubtedly resulted in Government Printing Works ato present his list of members of titude and

loss of popularity of Italian Pretoria and that this quantity the Cabinet later in the evening-still inciting their classmates to stamps with the more serious cal-must be deducted from the above! Trans-Ocean Service. lectors, and has, on many occasions, figures, giving as revised quantities resulted in strong criticism, in the pages of the philatelic periodicals.

14. 27 14. 33 2d. 58 6d. 30 That steps are to be taken to re-

The issue is thus shown to be of medy this position is indeed grati-the greatest rarity and, as it is only fying. particularly in view of the a question of an overprint. our obvious abuses which resulted in readers should be on their guard) the system adopted. and under with any stamps offered them. As banks and

The premises of many other In the notice of dismissal it is!

financial firms which any balance of stock was far as we know only a very few searched

were stated that the students in ques- handed over to various bodies for coples have come to light. It should course of Friday, and a large aum- despite the advice given by their by the police in the tion are not pardonable, because. disposal.

not be difficult to trace the history ber of suspicious telegrams were teachers and the Chancellor, they of these and any other copies, es-intercepted and held back by the persisted in their mischievous pecially unused, should be held open postal authorities. Trans-Ocean activities-Central Press- to suspicion as the overprint does Service.

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The Italian press announces that in future, by a law which will sp-

ply to Italy, the Aegean Islands

commemorative of events of

X-

not appear to be a difficult one to forge..

QUETTA POLICE FORCE

ALMOST ANNIHILATED

(Continued from Page 1)

packs of cards in the violence of

the shock, burying their occupants in the debris..

LOCAL DOLLARTM ADVANCES

Silver Prices Improve

Brits

MONDAY'S STORY -

Monday's story will be Knight-Errant." by A. P. Carland.

So many days passed that he lost) count of them. He screwed up: sailor how much longer they were courage one morning to ask aj

roing to sail

ECONOMIC STATUS think they would

AMERICA

(Continued from Page 1).

"Australia," he growled in reply. The word told him nothing. More days passed. He began to never see land, and that *Australia" meant an endless sailing about. He thought of his mother, and ached for her as though he were a child not yet at home, in Peel. He thought and weaned. He thought of all of them,

arthing, opening on demand this codes would be maintained volun- thought of them.

The local dollar has improved a.He hoped that the spirit of the morning at 2/42/4

MILITARY AREA ESCAPES

Spot silver advanced 1⁄2 to 33-9-that the question will eventually refer to Australia as an island. His tarily, and when voicing the opinion Then one day he heard a sailor The earthquake was felt with 16 and forward to 33-13/16. and the Italian Colonies, all stamps equal severity in civil lines and in The Londer on New York cross the people President Roosevelt em-little island and smiled. Going to have to be settled by the vote of heart leapt He pictured his own the Royal Air Force area, which lie rate was quoted at. US$4.94%.phasised that he does not consider Australia, then, would be like going traordinary national importance to the west of the city, hat the as compared with S—US$191, will be prepared exclusively by the military area, lying to the north, while the New York State, without the intervention of was only slightly damaged, and, sa cross-rate was quoted Committees

or Institutions:

DOT-

far as is known, no military officials $493. mally without a premium and ab-or their families were among the solutely excluding any free dona-injured.

rency.

recent

ones

and to

110

OF

home. When he fell asleep he said RENEWAL APPLICATIONS “AustraliaTM as though it were a Referring to the batch of tele-foreign ́word, which when translat- {grams and letters

his desk, ad meant home. restoration of the NRA. in some finding at Sydney. most of which are asking for the At last they reached Australia, form. President Roosevelt said that

jit a "partisan issue."

London

at US

FOUR CER. RESORTS TO BE OPENED Reduction In Tariff On Passengers

he did not believe that the people per, in his hoarse, gurgling voice "Coming back?" asked the skip- fully appreciated the vast implica that no amount of coughing could tions of the decision, or such sug-ever clear.

The boy hesitated. The thought presented too suddenly. He bad never pictured going back.

gestions for the renewal of the NPA would not have been made.

AN INVIDIOUS POSITION

was

in

the

YEWA

tions, even after the period of cur- --Casualties among the troops were If a premium is charged, it also slight, and throughout the day will be kept as low as possible, the men of the British and Indian Re- sole intention being to recoup the giments have been working feverish- cost of reproduction.

ly to convey succour, Iz effect this means that in fu-establish some semblance of order! ture there will be far fewer com among the thousands of distracted

Four new summer resorts along! succeeded in the former Chinese Eastern Rail He said that the United States What would his father do when he memorative stamps issued by Italy refugees, and have and her Colonies as most of the providing temporary accommodation way will be opened this season, ac was now the only nation

for many of the destitute in camps cording to reports from Mancha-world without authority to exercise when he was angry. Once, when he were instigated by

saw him? Ee was a fierce "Committees or Institutions, which hurriedly erected on the race huo. They are Lashagow, Falaerdy, control over the economic and social had run away just for a few hours, received the balance of the stock as course and in the grounds of the Chalantung and Imianpow which conditions of the people, but be

Residency.

he had beaten him with a strap. Meredith Jones, of the Indian Civil railway.

It was in the civil lines that Mr. Ostroumeff's administration of the ways the best thing that had hap skipper, enraged by his silence.

were acquired during the engineer thought the decision was in

Bome "Coming back?** shouted the Service, his wife and mother-in-law

pened, because it clarified the The new C.E.R. management has issue, which in several ways he felt He couldn't resist it. He couldn't and Mr. Francis, of the Irrigation decided to re-establish all these re was the biggest ever before the bring words to his tongue.

His dreaminess overcame hion Service, and his wife lost their sorts and to make them more acces-country in a time of peace. fires.

sible to the general public by

President Roosevelt also said that than the actual man in front 'of picture of his father was more vivid Many officials had extremely nar-reducing the passenger tariff.

(the Supreme Court opinion, if it him. He thought of his father. row escapes, among them being Sir

jblocked any Federal control of agri- Norman Carter, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan.

cultural production, might result in skipper, lowering his voice and "Are y' coming back?" asked the 36 cents wheat and 5 cents cotton, coming towards him. TOWN DESTROYED

under present world conditions -- Reater.

soon as the stamps were issued, and, often disposed of them to the trade

at, much below face value. The State will have no inclination to

as

issue special stamps save on oces sions of real importance and. will be seen above, there will no longer be any

"free donations" of remainder stocks to private bodies.

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*

New Egyptian Issue

It is understood that in accor It is also reported that the town! dance with a decision of the Uni-jof. Mastung, 40 miles to the south versal Postal Union

the

word of Quetta, was completely destroyed

"Poster" will in future be incorpor-and that four-fifths of its popola

CONSULAR OFFICER TO VISIT CANTON

(Continued from Page 1).

سبه

Japanese press reports have been

the

TREASURY BILLS ISSUE

The

The boy remembered his coming! oat. No, he couldn't go back and bear it again

He turned and ran from the ship. Then he walked about the town to-day The total wondering what to do. He looked

ated in the designs of the Egyptian tion have been killed, the same fate hinting that the Nanking authori- postage stamps. An essay has al-overtaking neighbouring villages ties are planning to extend their London, ready been submitted by the Sur-Apart from the towns Baluchistan control over the South-west, which amount applied for in tenders for in at a shop window, but couldn't vey of Egypt, in which the value in is sparsely populated and no in-lis stated to be preparing for such £40,000,000 Treasury bills was face the thought of being an errand words is replaced by the inscripformation is yet available as to the an-eventuality, tion "Postes Egyptiennis," and the damage in the outlying districts.

£52,950,000. The maximum amont: ay- The sex drew him. He walk- figure of value is followed by the

Significance is attached to was allotted in bills at 3 months,fed back to the harbour."- abbreviation "mill for milllemes a wireless appeal to all provincial Japanese General Staff believe that 10/5.70d as

Sir Norman Carter has broadcast report from Tokyo stating that the and the average rate per cent was A coaster lay at her moorings. and "L. E. for the Egyptian pound headquarters for the urgent des General Chiang Kai-shek will re- 10/5.70d a week ago-British Wire-help were needed. Yes, they want compared with He stepped aboard and asked if The colours are identical with patch of medical relief, and imme-sume anti-Japanese activities when those now current, and the new diately the news of the disaster was he has suppressed the Reds and

less Service. stamps will be issued as and when received doctors and nurses were unified the country. supplies in the old type become ex-despatched by the Punjab Govern- hausted

'

ment to the scene by the quickest PRINCE'S TELEGRAM TO KING available routes. British Wireless

ed someone to peel the potatoes and wash up. He could do both those FRENCH RADICALS WILL AID things He was taken on.

NEW GOVERNMENT-

When he was eighteen he mar ried. She was a woman thirteen (Continued from Page 11

years his senior, a big, blu, langh- London, To-day. HRH the

Ing creature. She had been made Prince of Wales yesterday

inan Mr. Darid William gurated the new nine words for tention to retain MM Herriot and

M. Borisson confirmed his in love to by many sailors, but none Tratman C3G Acting Coloniall sixpence telegrams by sending the Laval and to invite M. Caillaur to wanted to marry. What else could them had married her She Secretary, has been appointed Chair fast one to His Majesty the King join the Ministry without a porta woman do? man of the Licensing Board, with effect British Wireless Service.

The Ho

We read that there is the possi-Service. bility of the New Zealand Jubilee stamps being overprinted for Cook islands and Nive, but even at this late date no definite information is

forthcoming

from May 23,

wed on Page 10)

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