THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1936
FRANCE'S INFLUENCE THE CAPTURE
TO-DAY
(Continued from Page #)
Harmony With Moscow But her attitude of reserve does not prevent the Ministers of Prince Paul from acting. whenever necessary. in close harmony with Moscow for the sake of the alliance with Tur- ikey upon which they set such a
high price.
safe built into the wall of my dining-room........there.
CALLER House-safe, sir? Why, house-safes are bread-and-cheese
(Continued from Page 7).
CALLER. He's in your back gar ¡den, now.
HOUSEHOLDER. But why-why and onions to CALLER Because, sir, he means is he outside there?
to get inside.
HOUSEHOLDER. But why should
he select my abode?
CALLER Taken a fancy to the
"Foster" Mason.
fes. |He's a regular genius for house- I must say that for him. He can as good as pull 'em apart with his fingers inside of two zizutes.
and...
my
HOUSEHOLDER. But that must If the Little Entente to-mor-look of your windows, I daresay not be permitted to happen to my
sir. As a matter of fact, we had safe. The greater part of row had to decide between! allegiance to France and allegi-word at the Tard that "Buster" wife's jewellery is in my safe. wasn't going to waste much time ance to Russia, the latter would before tackling a fresa job We're
CALLER. Oh, make your mind surely rank foremost in its mind. The practical result is had him ander observation all the
easy about that, sir. There's no- that either France must reach evening. And I know he's in your thing going to be stolen from here
to-aight an understanding with Russia garden because I saw him go down
HOUSEHOLDER But or give up all her political the side of your house, with my
you were saying that HOUSEHOLDER. But I have no tral and Eastern Europe.
CALLER Esh! Listen! Hear desire to have bad characters con- that? Here's your caller arriving, Having broken her connec-]
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HOUSEHOLDER.
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Won't, he
CALLER. Not "Buster,” sir. Private safes are his speciality.
his job.
tions in that part of the Concealing themselves in my garden.ar! Seems as if he knows just tinent, would she feel so sure! There is no knowing what damage what to make for, doesn't it? that the Slay world, in despair he may do among my herbaceous of ever being able to withstand borders Trampling things under- the onslaught of Pan-German-foot, officer. I take a pride in my coming this way?. ism. would not resign itself to herbaceous borders, and I have. I compromise with it, possibly at may tell you, several comparative He'll stay put there, till he's done! the expense of Western Europe? costly perennials and
Eventually. in a European and
CALLEE Don't you bother about conflict. would it not thus be possible for the German your garden, sir.
I expect you have a number of Russia and Rumania 25 source of supply of all requisite felnacks you'd be sorry to lose,
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HOUSEHOLDER. Sach valuables cancel to a great extent the
the as I have in the house are, in my advantagės accruing `to maritime Powers in control of opinion. quite secure, officer.
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HOUSEHOLDER But, good graci- It's things in ous officer. aren't you going to arrest him at once?
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CALLER. That's not my instruc- tions from the chief, sir. We've got "Buster" just where we want him. Let him get on with the good work. We'll nab him, red- handed, with all the stuff on him. Much more satisfactory all round. (He peeps through' the keyhole.) He's got the light on, and he's well various away with the job. We've got him the French General Staff that theses as regards home affairs properly, sir. By the way, sir, got in 1934 it took the lead in the with the authority of Stalin. anything in the way of firearms campaign for the rapprochement - The Soviets declare that the on you?
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"It is Necessary".
The HOUSEHOLDER produces a
revolver from his dressing-gown
Comintern is a power by itself over which they have no con-
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new policy, an eminent general selves of the explosive world suppose you'll have to use it..six, necessary." ideology of Communism. and. but if the need does arise, don't declared: "It is
You will be All the more necessary was it above all-as they have been hesitate to shoot.
to retain
when quite justified. in the circumstan- it to assist allowed that. being bound Czechoslovakia and, therefore, officially "recognised" by the jees. And now, from what I know! the whole of the Little Entente various Powers and received of "Boster"....I thought as much. on the assumption of a German into the League of Nations-Opening safes like that is as easy result of the they consider, that their claim as shelling peas to "Buster." Have attack (as 2 Franco-Czechoslovak Treaty of to behave as the defenders of a look at him for yourself, sir.
HOUSEHOLDER fat the keyhole). January. 1924), France would. the new faith has now been well
The fellow's helping himself right indeed, be drawn into going to established. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to the rescue of Soviet Russia. If the highest military and and left from the safe! My wife's Istanbul, Piraens, Symena and otherLevant Ports by steaMASTE of the The contract of May 2, 1935. police authorities are to be be-jewellery-really, officer, I do think Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
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identify the articles as soon as he's CALLER TESUnes a stern expres- SAILINGS Upon a basis of reciprocity that in France has subsided, if not
disappeared, since 1932. I am is where "Buster's" little de facto commitment.
sion, and the BURGLAR looks M. Laval, however. had not told that in 1934 150 cases of stops with a jerk Get your shooter dressed? Very good, sir.....
You beard, sir? Headquarters sullen again). departed from Moscow last May incitement to disobedience were handy. I'm going in after him,
and the stoler articles, at once, Swettenham, before he keenly regretted what recorded in the French army, now. Mind you keep him covered. directs me to take the prisoner Here you are, officer.
CALLER fings open the
CALLER Thank you, sir. had and that in 1935 that figure had/The in a weak moment he
to the nearest police station, and (He takes the basket in one hand Now then, "Buster," the accomplished. Hence his shrunk to less than 10. But it door.)
the Inspector-in-Charge would be striving to placate Germany is nevertheless open to the game's up!
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scuffle. 2000 as you're dressed, sir.
Now, sir, if you'll kindly open the agreement of its substance, by treaty to put to the account of There is the noise of
HOUSEHOLDER. Quite! I heard. front door, for me? every Russia every subversive deed Then the BURCLAR, a small man
Come OIL CALLER. If you'll just have that "Buster." contact between the two Array or word that can be detected in wearing a cap and a black mask,
would have French territory, and they free is roughly thrust on to the stage.) six-shooter of your handy to keep (They make for the front door, but
avail themselves of the readily broken his return jour-ly
BURGLAR. All right! All right! him from trying a bolt while
as they pass the HOUSEHOLDER. No need to chuck me about like pack these things.
he interrupts them) What Is The Danger? that! It's a fair cop, and I'I go (He takes the basket and begins
HOUSEHOLDER. Oh, one moment, Which is the prior danger, quiet.
packing it with dexterity.) the German or the Russian ? CALLER I bet you do! Put Thank you, sir. Now, if you'll
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CALLER. Sir?
J:
. He endeavoured all the more That is the crucial question. I'm on!
HOUSEHOLDER (swiftly covering anxiously to retrace his steps, personally believe and, as a (The BURGLAR holds out his wrists
the two. men with his revolver). since he had made the mistake body, French diplomats believe,
for the handcuffs which are HOUSEHOLDER Certainly. Cer-Heads up, the pair of you! Hands while in the Russian capital of that the German peril comes clapped on)
tainly. I will dress with all ex-ap-will you! securing from M. Stalin a pub-first. Moreover, the Russian Keep your eye on him, sir, while pedition. But, officer, there is a CALLER. Why, what on earth... lic declaration about the legiti-threat to social order does not I find out what he's been helping matter which I feel I ought to HOUSEHOLDER Hands up, or I- macy of France's rearmament. arise from Moscow's alleged himself to
self.
they stand nearer to the middle-class parties than
Socialists.
the
you like" is the current phrase. Mustapha Kemal Pasha
has
Co-
HOLDER.)
to
急
CALLER.. I see, six.
5$-
the
mention. You remember you hand-shoot! Prive you, my solemn orth That declaration was intend transfer of funds and the send (The CALLER goes through the ed the stolen articles to me, as I do! You said yourself. I needn't ed to paralyse French Cuming out of propagandists, but BURGLAR'S pockets. He hands you removed them from the pri-hesitate: I'd be quite Justified. munists in their attacks upon from the example set by a re-
* each artide
the HOUSE soner? Well, I suppose I was Now then, up with them, or ..... the Government, but the prac-volutionary regime which, at
over agitated over-errited, you (The CALLER and the BURLAR tical result was by no means to last, has succeeded in solving A nice little hath what do you know, or something of the sort raise their hands "above “their the liking of the moderate some of its problems, in creating think, sir? "Buster." I'm afraid Whatever the cause, I absent heads, and the HOUSEHOLDER parties and the Premier hima heavy industry and a well there's another long holiday in the mindedly placed one of the stolen" takes the basket from
disciplined army.
country waiting for you. I get articles—a valuable necklace--in CALZER'S hand) Once they had softened their
my pocket. When I went upstairs | Over there! time-honoured
That threat would be felt all you to pack these things in views about the same and probably to a basket, or something, sir, and bring just now I handed the necklace to (The CALLER and BURGLAR, cotter- Sydney. national defence, the French
along my wife. I-I really don't know ed by the revolver, are forced Communists found themselves, Teater degree if hostility, em round to the station,
why, I suppose, seeing how
against the wall) instead of a spirit of co-opera- with na in bome politics, on the same
HOUSEHOLDER. Certainly! I seem nerved she was. alignment
tion on the international plane,
I-I thought it It may interest you to know that as the Radical-
And to remember a basket my wife might be some slight reassurance that jewel-case I just branded to Socialists and the Second Inter-were shown to Moscow.
let us observe that Moscow has upstairs. That would be just to her...
you is an old, empty one that hip- national Socialists. It can even
pened to be upstairs."You'd have be said that in some respects Dever objects to any repressive the thing. I'll go and fetch it.
HOUSEHOLDER. · · Well, I-the got away quite safely, if only you measure enforced against Com-(The HOUSEHOLDER. goes out The
Callat and the BURCLAR stand point is, that really that necklace hadn't telephoned. I fully belley- munists. "Deal with them as
listening a second or two, then ought to be included in this evided you up to then.
But, when you telephoned... turn and grin at each other, and ence, ought it not? shake hands very happily. With CALLER Most certainly it well, it may help you to understand out exchanging a word they ex should, sir.
the position when I inform you amine the jewebcases with ez-
So I thought: that, owing to some fault, that pert fingers. The CALZER grunts officer. Do you mind waiting telephone has been completely out with satisfaction as he finds a few moments, while I fetch it? - of order for two days. It is not diamond bracelet. He puts it CALLER. If you'¤ kindly hurry.jeven connected! · Fortunately the away, hastily as he hears the elr.
other telephone is in perfect or HOUSEHOLDER coming back, and】 HOUSEHOLDER. I'm sorry if I der.. My wife has already spoken to the police. They will be here assumes the complete Scotland have. - ma "Yard poise as he snatches the CALIZE That's all right, air in a few moments: -
telephone and speaks into the Glad you mentioned it in time, (The CALLER and BURCLAR make a mouthpiece.)
that's all.
sudden dask for the door, but the HOUSEHOLDER fires chamber of a revolver at the` foor. This defeats the captives, who retreat to the well and put their hands up again. A police whistle: "ishgard outside and there is a loud rat-tat on the door.)
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HOUSEHOLDER.
?
CALLER Yes, caught him with (The HOUEZEOLDER. Joes off. The on the Danube and in the East, the staff on him, sir... Very BURGLAR and the CALLEE clasp The Congress of the Comin-M. Laval had it under his good of you to asỹ so, sir.
hands and break into a light. tern which met in Moscow last serious consideration, but he What was that?"
footed and ridiculous war-dance, summer, after an interruption could not find a single man The HouSEHOLDER enters with a beaming at their unserpected
~~good fortune.) P&O BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG of seven years, did not help of responsibility to recommend small fancy basket.)
matters. It is a general cause it. A formidable Nemesis Oh, I see! You want me to take HOUSEHOLDER (of stage.) Or 27721
of irritation to hem. French would be too likely to issue from the prisoner and the evidence along course you'll get it back, my dear! ¡Communists, back from Mos-the bargain.
to the nearest police station, and You'll get them all back!
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