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STAMP ECOLLECTORS

Czechoslovakia Cyrillic

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MPLIFICATION of our

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By A. E. L

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935

INTERPORT

CHAMPIONS

GRIM STRUGGLE

(Continued from Page 4)

To-day's Short Story

GRANDMA'S STORY

quiver."

By Larry Aherne

The 380 Yards Free Style HIT sixty in the new bus Ethel and without waiting for should see Lawrence gain anotherį to-day," said Rita, finging any opinion she continued: triumph...

her cap on one chair and a pair. Ethel lived in a largish coun- za the normal way. Our illustra- In the 100 Yards Back Stroke, of motoring goggles on another-the bush. When she was nine- try town and knew naught about tion shows a reversed impression Lawrence's time is superior to "She rose to it without a teen she marrit Jack, a pair mon re on the back of an Argentine anything returned in the northern port

stampe stamp. with the normal stamp port, although Hammond was not COMES. from the Daily Mail for comparison. This type of im far off the mark during the Shang-

to the machine hai Championships. (August 6), which states that pression is due they are in commemoration of the making a revolution without a recent Catholic Congress at sheet of paper being fed through. Prague and on three values show the two saints. St. Kyrillos and "St. Methodos, with an old manu- script Bible opened between them.

It is claimed that the words at the beginning of St. John's Gospel"—"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God" can be read (in Slavonic] characters).

*

Polish Trans-Polar Flight

OR the recent attempted flight from Moscow to San Fran-

FOR

so that the bed on which

*

*

the

"M-m." commented Jean, busy with lipstick in front of the par lour mirror.

he was with about £15 in the bank. He had selected a block of land twenty miles from the nearest township. It was cover- Back-Stroke Rivalry

ed with scrub, only a few acres Shanghai critics are of the The little gray-haired lady sat being cleared. The home there opinion that Hammond would win erect on her hard chair, and, with were many like it in those times the event, in spite of Lawrence's her knitting needles click-clack- -was a slab hut of two rooms, better time, but this is a very de-ing rapidly, smiled sardonically. batable point There is the fact "Diana de înterruptin” `` the! that Hammond has never been girl,” she advised. "Canna re

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MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be Evening. Miss Evans,” by Margaret Lee Runbeck.

properly extended in this event see she's donnin' her warr paint and this may act as an added im-¡prior to scalpin' the young" mon

*Nice that's comin'" to tea." Rita giggled petus.

Lau Po-hei, the former Colony and the old lady's disapproval

fell

her. These stamps are likely to raise/Paper rests gets an inked impres-champion will have the advantage

sion of the design. When the over both Hammond and Lawrence "And as for ye, lassie, some a pretty question among students next sheet goes through it rein that he will start fresh, and day ye'll hit vir instead of sixty of ancient languages as some ceives a normal impression from the same applies to

and that yin be a post, and ye with a galvanised iron lean to at claim that the lettering is Old the plate and a reversed impres-Shanghai's second string.

Wagner, winna be careerin' round the Glagolic, while others hold that it sion on the back from the bed.

the back serving as kitchen. In

is Cyrillic.

The last Interport event on the country agen"

the first week Ethel let three the water-polo, Rita laughed............ programme is

"Now, Grannie." she expostu-to kill them Next week she kill-||

snakes get away rather than try An Antarctic Souvenir

which is, however, a possibility iated. "Dinna" (mimicking theed one, and thereafter kept on UR illustration shows the that Lawrence may not play, in

heading of a letter from a which case Gittins will probably old lady's accent, which was only killing them some days two or member of the Scott Antarctic move up to the pivotal position present when she was talking to three sometimes none. The place cisco, via the polar regions, the 10 Expedition of 1911-1913, written and W. F. Kerr will be brought in

her granddaughters, who dis- kopecs. of the "Tcheluskin" series

the Terra Nova. Thejat left-back. on board

approved of it)" "be auld-fashion-j S over printed (in. Russian

ed. Girls of to-day think nothing). two stamps of Victoria Land are With Shanghai at full strength of travelling at sixty-it's characters)

with an inscription also shown attached to the letter including Hammond and meaning: "Flight Moscow. - San

Logan snail's pace. The modern girl is with the special-Huxley, their manager, and Pre three C's courageous, capable, a year, bairn Elsie was born, and Francisco across the North Pole,postmark of the expedition. The sident of the Shanghai Amateur cheerful-wheress 1935. I rouble" The stamp bears letter refers to a portrait of Levanevski,, and

Capt. Scott and was used for pestage on the mail which the Moscow Central Post Office delivered on board the aero- plaze "URSS No. 025′′ on the night of August 9.

Was

As the postage on each letter 1 R. 10k, the surcharge evidently indicated additional valne, the face value of each stamp equal to the letter rate.

The stamps were sold to the public on August 2, when about 5,000 were purchased. The total issue was 10,000.

Puzzling Spanish Stamp

Fand

cancelled

the death of

his four com-'

İpanions who reached the South.

Pole only to find that Amundsen

OPE Vega III Centenario, is the Norwegian, had got there be Swimming Association, may play L the small inscription on

afore them: On the return jour--the game is likely to be a fast new Spanish stamp franking aney all perished, including the and furious one. letter received from Julian Abio heroic Capt Oates who, crippled Following the gala, the prizes ! (Bilbao). The design is quaint, scurvy, and frostbite, walked will be distributed in the Dance! showing a somewhat loathsome out of the tent to his death rather Hall, while dancing will follow! insect-fly or beetle apparently nib-than hinder the

progress of his later. bling a rose, above which is the companions. inscription. "Odore Enecatsvo"

which seems suggestive of a new Belgian Commemorative scent. No doubt enlightment will

50 Yards Hurdle Race (Members) come with time. The denomica-TE Belgian Government has 50 Yards Free Style (Interport)

The Belian Government had Interport Divin tion is 15c and the colour grey green.

the

was near a creek quite a pretty stream ye discovered if ye forced Four way down through the thick scrub covering the banks

"When Ethel had been marrit

young eleven months later wee John ladies of your day were the three

came along." Tsignorant impracticable, în-

Here Grandma dropped her sc- sipid."

cent and continued:"

This alliterative remark seem- "One winter's day Jack rode ed to floor Grannie, for she reinto the township for supplies. mained silent, and, taking pity on usually he drove and took Ethel her, Rita remarked magnanimous but. as the heavy winter-rains ly, "Of course, I admit they didn't had soaked the roads, she thought have our opportunities.”

it wiser to keep the bains at Grandina's needles stopped home. Ethel set about preparing clicking "EL, now," she said

ja tasty stew. She was stirring abruptly, "and perhaps ye wad the boiling mass, when the light like to hear the story of my friend was suddenly blocked out and a

strange voice from the door or dered:

LOCAL DOLLAR

DECLINES

Shake it up, missus: mine gettin' hungy."

"Ethel swung round. A beard- led blackfellow, clad in a few

Silver Prices Improve thy rags, stood in the doorway-

"No gibbit tucker, declared Ethel

The local dollar has declined , opening on demand this mothe ing at 2/034.

**Me wantem tucker,” persisted black, advancing into the room. "Him" smellem budgeree," added, looking greedily to-

towards

The following is to-night's com Spot silver, however, rose . to he plete programme, which commen-29-5/16, and forward % to 29-wards the steaming stew, and ces at 9.15 pm

The London on New York cruss stepping menacingly rate was quoted at £US$4.31% Ethel. las compared with £--US$4.922-Get out, she commanded.

she.com while the New York on LonGet out! And, thrusting the ladle, ing the fiftieth anniversary of 100 Yards Free Style Handicap don cross-rate was

(Members) An autogiro-stamp, of a face the proclamation of the Congo 880 Yards Free Style (Interport)

quoted at into the stew, she drew it out full £US$491%, as compared with of the boiling liquid and hurled value of 2 pesetas, has been re- Free State. On it appear the Interval

US$4.921.

it at his bare body. cently issued

heads of four Kings of Belgium, 220 Yards Free Style Junior Cham- Leopold L, Leopold IL, Albert I, pionship of the V.R.C

100 Yards Free Style Handicap and Leopold HEL

(Ladies)

Interesting Unofficial Issue

UR readers may recollect that

Milford,

This is not a philatelic novelty-100 Yards Backstroke (Interpart)

COM

under the command of Captain the British. authorities to

C. Phillips and flying the flag memorate St. Helena's centenary

of Vice Admiral E. B. G. E. Evans; as a Crown colony (previously it C.B., D.SO., of war-time fame, had belonged to the East India made a voyage from the Cape to-Company). wards the Antarctic. During It depicts the Plantation, once what turned out to be an adven-the residence of Napoleon's turous trip, a call was made at "gaoler" the Governor Sir Hud- the Norwegian possession of son Lowe, and shows the heads of;

Wiliam IV, Queen Victoria, King Edward, and King George

under 12)

100 Yards Rackstroke (Members) Water Polo:

Shanghai v Hong Kong

Boys

THIEF SWINDLED

Wanted To Be Army OfficerTM

PAID $300 TO MAN WHO DISAPPEARED

On the Belgian stampe appear the dates 1831 and 1935-the period covered by the reigns of

Tung Pik-kwong, 18, was yester- the four Kings. The period

default covered by the reigns of the four day fined $100, in

two

Bouvet Island, which no British British Sovereigns is practically months hard labour, by Mr.

THAT POST OFFICE JOKE

Protest Made To The B.B.C.

“The black jabbered and cring- ed backwards, and then tumed and fled Ethel watched him go, across the clearing, then crsah into the thick undergrowth/p

“All day she kept a close watch, afraid that he might returzi. Near

The president of the Union at hand lay a loaded gun, and the lof Post Office Workers, Mr. Crefused to allow the bairns to

C. Smallwood, has addressed a play outdoors. strong protest to the B.B.C

afternoon" came. The about a joke which was broad cow should be milked. John de- cast recently.

manded a drink, and Ethel gave A comedian in a North Rehim the last drop of milk. He gional variety programme told soon fell asleep and Eethel pat a story of a custoiner fainting him in his cradle. Then, leaving when a girl behind a post-office Elsie playing on the floor with counter said, "Thank you.” some building blocks her father In an interview, Mr. Small-had sawn for her, she ventured wood said: ̈·

out, first barring the windows and "We do not mind ordinary doors.

warship had ever visited before the same, as William IV. ascended Schofield at the Central Magis jokes about post-office workers. "Every few moments. she The Norwegian Consul at Cape the throne only a year before tracy, for the theft of $600, the but we consider that this time glanced back anxiously at the

property of his employer, Ting the BBC has gone too far. Town gave authority to overprint Leopold I

| Koon-tin, manager of the Man Wo

house, but it looked so peaceful “In the main, our people give with the soft sunlight, beaming pawnshop, No. 60 Electric Road, such courtesy as time permits down on the shingled roof and ground floor, on August 21. and this form of alleged joke the geraniums in the little gardez

some Norwegian stamps with the

words "BOUVETOYA” (=island)..

and to dispatch a mail while in

Norwegian waters and this was TAXI AND PRIVATE- Acting Sub-Inspector Madgwick, goes beyond the bounds of de-holding up bright, valiant heads, done. 5, 7, 10, 20 and 30 ore) - CAR COLLISION stamps were overprinted, the

quantities ranging

from: 100 d

the 7 ore to 999 of the 10 ore European Driver At

Fault

FINED $15

As no authority for overprinting was given by the Norwegian Post Office, this can hardly be regarded as an official issue, but it is off distinct interest as it may be re-

Mr. O. A. Smith, of garded as in a sense a Norwegian Peak Road, Castle Peak, was sum- isane made by British hands. Our moned before Mr. Thomson at the illustration shows an envelope re- Kowloon Magistracy yesterday ceived by the Editor at the time, for driving private car No. 410 from Captain Phillips

who prosecuted, said that defea- cency. dant had spent all the money, and had $300 swindled from him by a

man on board a Canton steamer

who had promised to get him a

ON THE SAFE SIDE

that her fears were lulled. The cow had wandered into the scrub, and though Ethel hurried, half an hour had elapsed before she Long nightgowns are being returned to the hut

“Hurrying round to the front

| job as an officer in the Canton worn as bathing suits by the wo-

Army for $300. The defendant men of Valencia, Spain, for fear door, she gasped. It was swing gave him the money, and never saw of being arrested under new ing open she had blocked it him again

beach modesty regulations.

Government Appointments

without exercising due care and The following notifica caution in Nathan Road near Pitt published

the Gon Onset Impression: Street on = September 7 at 10:40 Gaz "HERE stamps are described pan., when his car was in colli

in the Catalogue print-sion with a taxi.

Skipt that Defendant, who said he had Oficer there is a positive impression of been driving for 35 ye Land

W

ed on back" this

the design

stamp, due

clean record,

nd was fined $15

rking tha

George Stacy resumed dut

the Southern

[Society, has

bert McLean

succeeded Dz. Bo- Gibson as trustee

Incorporation

Ordinan

from outside and Elsie couldn't] have opened it. Filled with ap- prehension, she huried, incide, No one in the dini

the {bedroom! - Elsie's, playing blocks

were scatt

gy--Some

to feel

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