1935-09-21 — Page 15

THE CHINA MAITS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935

Grandma's Story

(Continued from Page 93

*Here I is. Mummie.*

RADIO

shinued from Page 3)

JIII Darling Sale

If I Love Again

Patricia Rossborour

Suddenly from the edge of the clearing came a cry—a child's cry¦ Piano Solos- —and with ber heart leaping with- by "Joyfully she swung round, butția her, but without moving her

there was only one child Dar gaze from the mass round the fire,Songs ling, darling, where, is Johnnie Ethel side-stepped towards the (she, cried, holding Elsie close. sound. Anger and anguish food-

"Elafe" began to weep and itfed her being as she discovered the was some time before Ethel learn-source of the cry-apiccaninny led what had happened. Only a held in its black mother's arms few minutes after Ethel had left But to her Ethel appealed: the house. Elsie had seen a black- **White baby...where white fellow bending over the cradle-piccanin

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She had flown at him like an in- The gin quavered before Ethel furiated cat-but the

man had and moved away, pointing into a hit her, and. afraid, she had gunyah nearby. Cautiously Ethel sought refuge under the bed approached it. Oh joy! There lay There she had stayed until she wee John sleeping peacefully. Bending over him, gazing, search- ingly to be sure he was unhurt, "Ethel felt curiously numb, but Ethel felt faintness sweep (her mind worked methodically. When she was a bride, Jack had her and she fell by the babe. crushing his leg beneath her arranged that it ever she had

weight needed him she was to send off a Irocket, but only once before, when Jack was working at a

over

Taknys might have been so Diffrent I Haven't been the same girl sinen -

Gracie Fields Instrumental....”

Oh! Bosalita

Hawalan Stars are Gleaming Tode

Yodel all Day (Torrani)

Harry Töreni.

Orchestra-

El Relicario

La Violetera

Vocal

What's The Reason.

The Mills Brothers. Organ Solos

Medley of Old Songs Wedding of the Painted Don ***Leslie dames

Todel

The Yodelling : Chinaman

Georg Van Dusen. |Orchestral-Bolerp Vocal-Life Begins Again

"Flanagan and Allens $50-9 pm The Derby (Descrip tive) with the Singing Pearly Kungs. 9-9.15 pan-A Relay of the Dayen- try News Bulletin (Copyright by Ben-

9.15-9.30 pm. The J. H. Squire dis-Celeste Octet

Only a second did she lie there. Then by a supreme effort she re neighbouring selection and John gained her feet. By this time the was to be born, had it been neces- camp was deserted. The blacks

and sary. Carefully she lit one rocket bad slipped quietly away, and with futile anger watched it knowing them. Ethel hoped theyter). fuse. The second one was more would move on now, deeming it ex- successful and rose high above pedient to go walkabout in the trees, but it looked wan in tricts where the arm of the law

only seldom reached.

**With hands that trembled a little. Ethel lit one rocket, and a

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS the daylight. There were

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*Wo more left; she must Save them; she might need them more Later. .-$

*

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few minutes later the other.

"The micutes

Silver Threads Among the Gold-

(arr. Willoughby) ^.

My Sweetheart when a Boy

(arr. Willoughby).

Good Company Medley

(arr. Willoughby) 9.20.10 p.m.-A" Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance. Orchestra.

-10 am-Big Ben: Reuter Press Bulletins.

10.05-10.30 pm-A Relay from Daventry.

dragged by nad "Rapidly she penned a note for each one seemed an hour long. Jack. telling him she was going Suddenly a stick cracked as though to the blacks camp, and stretch someone had stepped on it, and ed it across the table so that he Ethel trained the gun to that point. would be sure to see it. Hastily But she did not fire. Into the fit- 9th Nov. Marselles, Havre; London Hashe made a sling from a sheet, fal, glare cast by the dying fire10se 12 midnight A Holay

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brity. Rotterdam, Antwerp Holl

Marseilles & London.

Bombay. Marseilles & London Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-

burg. Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hall.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

&

Harold Ramsay, at the Organ of the Granada, Tooting

of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orch

12 midnight-Close Down Note:-There will be a relay from the

Lee Theatre:"(Chinese) on ZEK on a frequency o£ 840- *kibcycles from 8-11 p.m.

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tied it on her back, and made stepped Jack Elsie lie in it. "--

“Jack had not seen Ethel's first. “Across country it was only rocke“, but, when two miles from three miles to the blacks" camp, home he had seen the other two. but if one followed the creek Forcing his tired horse, he had which wound hither and thither, hastened home, found the note. it was nearly twice as far. Ethel then, remounting his horse, had decided to go the longer way, then made straight across country to Marseillies, Havre, London, Ham-there would be no danger of get the camp, reaching it about an

burg, R'dam, Antwerp & Hull

ting lost-the creek would inevit-hour-after Ethel had Jably lead her to her destination." “Jack had tied his horse to a Before Mr. H. C. Hobson, who "The sun was sinking behind nearby tree and he lifted Ethel was killed in the Dutch air crash the tree-tops now and chilimmers and, the whimpering baby to the at Amsterdam recently, left his was creeping into the air. Ethel saddle. He carried Elsie and they home at Copthorne, Susser, he hurried, but the clinging lantana slowly. tediously, made their way said to his wife: "Meet me at caught in her frock, holding her home. There, under the light of Croydon on my retu

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the creeping vines looped round a candle. Ethel examined the chil- After the crash his body was SAILINGS her feet, trying to trip her low dren, and a cry rose to her lips as brought by boat to England. A branches caught at ber head; she noticed baby John's chubby motor hearse brought the body by fallen trees barred her way- leg, so bruised and obviously road, and at Crpydon Airport the Frantically she fought her way broken.

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on

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scratches they made. It was dark jured leg and, while Jack searched Bursting into tears, she said: now the moon perched high for the carthorse and harnessed "He told me to meet him. here above the gaunt gums sent down it, she packed clothes for them all when he returned. I have kept San Francisco & Los Angeles Panama Canal a mellow gleam, but the thickly and barricaded the shutters and my promise.” interlaced branches let little light doors so that if the blacks did re- through

“Stumbling groping--hurry»-

pace.

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and pilfer. ing Ethel went on. The dry "Then began the long drive Srass pierced her stockings, the through the night twenty miles shawl round her head was torn

over rough water-logged roads. loose and flapped feebly. Elsie

Dawn was not far distant when, Costs Of Operation- began to whimper and Ethel con- soled her without slackening her at last, they reached the township Private flying became recog and hastened to the doctor's housemised. Costs of operation were But the doctor was out in the now discussed and considered. “A shooting pain gnawed at her side, her legs grew weary and it was some hours before he private owners

country attending another case. There grew from the first few. a substantial her shoulders ached...then be could be found and brought back crowd of them that are the back- tween the trunks of the trees, came a glimmer of light

Fourteen hours after John's leg bone or almost all fiying meetings Slowly, carefully, she walked had been broken the doctor set it to-day Aviation could not get on forward, and; on:

He did his best, but men of me without them. Our schools could the edge of a clearing paused.

In the centre dicine didn't know as much then not get along without these suall blazed a fire. Round it were as they do now, and wee John aeroplanes, cheap, in cost and equally cheap in operation The grouped the men and behind them, grew up with a limp."

idea that an aeroplane was costly the women, with their yam sticksį

Grannie's needles were clicking to run was negatived by experience at hand they seemed as though again when a tall man, grizzled and a study of the expense sheet.

Eighteen and 20 miles to the and middle-aged, limped in

"Eh...John, my boy," Grannie, gallon compared most favourably

and meagre household goods close

they were ready to move on at a moment's notice.

*

As Ethel advanced into the looked up with a smile, and how flickering light, one black sprang

is the maize crop faring?"-

with the average, car and the cost

of upkeep yes, no higher, even if

the original outlay was.

Back To Small Engines

Sydney to his feet and gibbered with Ritz looked at them open-mouth fear, evidently thinking her aned, be light of understanding

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"Dad is John with a limp, she the original idea of the light aero "Aunty plane The machines with the

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ALL DATES me appromomafe and sub-

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ed slightly, her face was white, said under her breath. her eyes two vivid points of light Edith Elsie died, and, if I remem- small engines Gliding had come The sight of the gun held steady ber rightly, Grandpa was John-to Britain from Germany and had a secure fopting among our youth in her hands convinced the watch Jack ing crowd that she was not super-

“Right-o, Grandma Marie.Ethel, Till air enthusiasts, natural, but it did not improve she said softly, almost reverently;

* “you win.” VER their discomfort.

(The End)

TO MORROW.

AT THE MAJESTIC

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MARCH

BAITSA

AGAIN

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(Continued from Page 1

Shootin

A small engine was fitted to a glider to become Imown as the “Drone.” This has an ordinary motor cycle engine of 6 hp. and Ifew one of these at a special tying meeting at Haworth on Boxing-Day 1932. This an attempt to popilense racing that was then in“

29th Nov.

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