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Wednesday, 16th Oct.

CHINA-MAIL-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1925

We Were Sitting By The River

(Continued from Page. 3.)

Strong threads of sieep: still around me, trying to our me back, but I resisted and tore the |spart

except the wind rustling through

Ithealesvas.

I felt myself fighting to live fighting hopelessly gasping and (straining. But the struggle was fshort and I knew that I was ly

ping down into the cold arms of death

As I at last sat up, although could remember no dream, 1. be heved I must have fought my way; Suddenly the fear left me. I had back to consciousness from the to fight no longer, but I was filled Serce nightmare with an intense sorrow as I looked grip of some which still had left a shadow of at the beauty of the country itself scross my mind...

around me, a beauty that now held I shook my head and blinked, (no hidden menace... "And Margery trying to rid myself of these last was sobbing as if her heart would #break: I put my arm around her cobwebs of unwanted sleep.

and we stood close prassed to- I began to regain my lost sense gether. Magery was the fir t to of reality, to realise that I was break our silence. "Listen. John” indeed still sitting on the bank of she said. "Can you hear any- the river, with Margery beside me thor?”

sleeping, and that everything should "Only a blackbird singing." I re be approximately just as it was beplied.

She

fore I let my eyes finally close "No-from over there.” Yet as each second parsel I grew pointed to the hill beyond the river- more and more certain that things Then I heard it also, like the sound were not the same, not only within of seas breaking on a beach car- me, but all around. It was a queer ried on the wind from miles away feeling, as if I were looking at a could hear the grating rumble picture I had seen before but of the shingle as the undertow painted by a different hand. Now caught it.

over everything a sense of meas-"You hear it now, too, don't ness brooted; the air felt staguant you? She was leaning forward and dull, its sparkle lost

to the breere. "Yes, it's a crowd

of people shouting. I think.“ too. was listening intently.

I looked behind me, half expect ing to see black thunder-clouds massing, but there was nothing ex- cept the soft bine sky stretching sound of fast running feet

turned my head and saw down to the horizon's edg.

L

Mr. Clemen Bering Liddell, sister of Lord Revekstake, lezves L Island, New York, with one of her four children after being detained on arrival from Englimi. Her husband, from whom she is separated,' is said to have object~~ ed to Mrz Liddell taking the children to America to relatives there.

From behind us there came the H.K. VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE CORPS

He reached us

ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK

ence Corps

Hong Kong.

Friday, 13th September. 1935.

GENERAL

I heard Margery stirring. She brother racing, across the meadow brushed an arm across her face, towards me, shouting as he ran and opened her eyes and looked "John! John! There's been a dis- up at me. I saw they appeared faster at the pit."

Hong Kong Volunteer Defence troubled, as if she was trying hard puffing and his words tripped over

themselves.

"I heard on the Corps Orders by Lient-Colonel H to understand something.

"phone just now-a big fall follow- B.-I. Dowbiggin 0.BE. Comman She spoke in a whisper. “What ad by rapid flooding, then a second lant Hong Kong Volunteer De- is it John-what is it?” “Nothing fall--cut off their retreat-not dearest-nothing. You've been hope-all men at the far end of dreaming, that's all-why, you're the Seton working must be dead by still half asleep." I answered, try- now, drowned like rats in a trap.” ing to reassure her.

I interrupted him. “Did you 887 | Machine Gun Battalion—N.CO.s For a moment we were both the Seton ?""

Promotion Examination the silent, and so I noticed was "Yes, yes, the Seton." He stop-

The following N.CO countryside. No longer could Iped to regain his breath. I looked examined in the Vickers Machine hear any Tttle stirrings in the out towards the kill, bevond which Gun (Practice, Instruction and grass or the chirping of grasshop- I knew the big winding wheel Theory) at Volantier-İzadquar- pers. The lark, whose notes had stood, wying to figure out as farters at 530 pm on Friday, 20th come down to us from the blue as I could remember the direction September. 1935. overhead, was silent, and in the of the Seton workings. It passed

No: 1543, L/Sergt. L. B. Holmes. bushes and willows no birds sang-junder the river a mile or two deep No. 1 (LG) Company.

I felt Margery's hand groping I was certain of that.

will be

No. 1688. L/Sergt. J. L. Tetley, for mine. I clasped it and held "Which way does the Seton No. 1 (MG) Company. it tight "Oh. John. I'm frighten-run, Williaun?" F'asked. ed--I'm frightened," she said.)

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I He thought for a moment.

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I saw

Thin

And as she of the country-side. something terribleTM 1put her fear intɔ words. I felt the start. defences I had built within myself "Why, the end of the workings slip and give way, and I knew that must be just about underneath I too was afraid.

where we're standing. Yes, those

PARADE

Corps Engineers bionday, 16th September, 1935 AA Training Whitfield Barracks

it 5.15 pm

I felt the chill creeping over me. poor trapped devils must be down He tapped the Yet what was there in this peaceful under here." scene to fear? Why should its ground with his foot quiet beauty have become so, sud- "Makes one feel wretched to denly a thing of oppressive horror? think about it," he said.

The strange unnatural silence Slowly we walked back away Launch at Kowloon Pier 6.15 pm Weather conditions was crushing down upon us, even from the river.

of the river during the afternoon, now stood still.

I looked to left and right, but could see nothing strange, nothing that by any chance could bring terror to the heart. The shadows were lengthening perhaps but that was all

Somehow the thought of running blindly back across the meadows to the shelter of the house never ex- tered our minds. There stemed no such possibility of es.ape We

(THE END).

Thursday, 19th September, 1935 AA. Training at Stonecutters.

MIRASSE make it necessary to].

40 M.P.H. PAST PATROL

Hon. G. R. Ward Fined

BUILT UP AREA OFFENCE

Londan.

The Hon. George Reginald Ward,

were trapped here, and hire we of the BAE. Hess, Gosport, w must remain to face whatever was stated at Alton Police Court to have passed a police patrol car at before na.

But, strangely enough, though 40 miles an hour in a built-up ares standing still, I felt as if I had in Alton.

been running: my lungs were tear- The police patrol stated he him- 4th Octing at each now laboured breath self was overtaking another car at Tues., Sth Nov. If only I could have known what 32 miles an hour, and he

gband we must meet, it might have been be content to let that easier to bear, to brace myself overtake and shop against the coming sho:k on” mind

Mon, 7th Oct. Thurs., 7th Nov.

Timura, 19th Sept. Fri, | 4th Oct..

Fri 20th Sept. Wed, 2nd Oct

Sun, 22nd Sept.

When told thewould.

cancel AA Training parades. when this possibility arises, mem- bers are requested to telephone to the Orderly Room when they will be informed whether the parade: will take place or not.

Corps Signals Parade at Volunteer Headquar ters at 5.30 pm on

Tuesday-179.35— for Signal

Instruction.

(Continned on Page 11)

MURDERED FOR ONE PENNY

Two Men Lose Their Lives

FIGHT FOLLOWS DISPUTE

rbed

catta

or body, but this this madness" of Mr. Ward replied, "Wall, in the a summer's afternode--for one wild future I will keep my eve on the moment I believed we most be speedometer, and not on the road. awaiting the end of the world; but He was fined 1 and his licence was that thought passed as quickly as endorsed. it came, and 1 new it was not thật. Yet whatever it might be it was drawing clober my fear was grow- Ing. The elders, whose shadows laced the river, the limitless blue of the sky and the cool green of "the"roeadows' were a mockery, torturing miragende Add

this

Thurs., 10th OctThe fear of death was tupon me,

I heard Margery grown, ?>Sh Jon her knees - with her hands be Sing -15th Sept. Sun, 22nd Sept fore her face alm

Calvision of tranquil lovelit Thurs, 19th Septe}. A great throbbing

T-Hung zryself ́zrou (hind wall was clear, apply to:

bing missed a beat it was OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Now I knew that at last the

*"about to break

I could see nothing or

SMASHING SLOT MACHINES

Court Held Up While Police Make Film

Judge Beazley: Southend County Court

the air while three

Two men have been murdered, one has been sentenced to death. another to transportati

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