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YKLINE

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General Passenger Agents in the Orient for Cunard White Star Line

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936-

Bulldog

(Continued from Page 7)

Crummel

"These are the relations of the. [deceased,” said the widow, look- Beyond her black-clad figure the ing coldly at the group. maza caught a glimpse of a mar- row iron bedstead

"Ah, yes; quite so," returned Beneath the the visitor, advancing into the

white coverlet the outline

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai Japan Ports and Honolulu.woman sternly.

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word with the old. mán. laside, missus.”

of

parlour and placing his

case on the centre table.

a

attache

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RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

Violin and Pianoforte Recital from Studio ZEK. Programme 1230-2.13 pm-European recorded programine

12.30 p.m.--A Jazz recital by Harry Boy's Tiger Ragamuffins,

1245 pDe Groot and his Or- chestra.

human form could be discerned. On the foot of the bed lay

The following programme will Seating himself, he faced the be broadcast to-day from the bulky object of brindle hue. three relatives of the defunct Hong Kong Broadcasting Station "What do you want?" asked the Crummel and surveyed each one Z.BW. on a wavelength of 355

closely through horn-rimmed spec metres (845 K.C.'1). "Tha's my business. I want a tacles. They, meanwhile, watched Stand him with an uneasiness that be-

came more and more apparent;

The widow Walker seated her- Without moving from her posi-self stifly on a chair close to the tion, the widow eyed him slowly door, after a swift and inimical from head to foot. Then she look-glance at the three intent faces ¦ed him steadily in the face. by which she was confronted.

"He's dead" she said solemnly. "I am the late Thomas Crum- "Time, too." growled the man. mel's solicitor--Mr.

Pecker, of "All the same, I'll see fer meself," Pecker. Fecker and Pecker," said he added, making to push past. the fresh arrival. producing

"No," was the firm reply. "No bundle of documents. one before the doctor. I have my orders."

મ

"Here." he said, waving a slip of paper. "I have the names of the surviving relatives of the de- "im!" ceased--all of whom. I believe, are attempting to present.

curse

"To bades with your orders -*** an' the doctor too, shouted

Paulin, thrust the woman aside.

1 p-Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 p.m.-Instrumental Variety. 130 Reuter Press Bulletins. Local: Weather forecast, time

announcements.

and

1.40 pm-Richard Tauber (Tenor).

1.50 pan-Dance Music. 2.15 p.m-Close Down. 3-8 pm-European Programme. 5-7 p.-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra. "I do not propose to read, to

p.m.-Selections from Light Instantly there was a heavy you word by word the deceased's Opera and Musical Comedy. thud, as the brindle-hued object will-as I fear its legal phraseo-Vocal Gems... dropped down from the bed and, logy-ahem-might puzzle rather with a vicious growi̟, rolled rather than enlighten you.

But I will Selection Girl than walked to the woman's side instead inform you of

my late and fixed a pair of savage, blood-client's two bequests. shot eyes on the intruder.

(Continued On Page 11)

The widow Walker stooped and laid a restraining hand on the bull-

dog's massive collar.

"You'd best go," she said calm- EXCAVATION DRAMA

him."

"I might not be able to hold

Paulin glared down at the ani- mal with eyes as savage as its Own.

"Hell!" he said in a gust of pas- sion. "Td like to put me foot in its ugly mug,"

the

The dog seemed to sense threat in the man's hoarse voice. [for it uttered an answering growi

and strained on its collar.

IN EGYPT

Opening Of Ancient Tomb Postponed

FOREMAN STABBED BY LABOURER

was

Just when an entrance about to be effected to an ancient

A

Les Cloches de Corneville

(Planquette) Vocal Goms

Viktoria and her Hussar Selection-

Musical Comedy Gems

1.30 pax. From the Studio.

A Violin and Pianoforte Recital by Jose Radesky and Mona MacLean.

Programme

1. La Por Pille... Losey.. 2. Chocolate Soldier-Selection

3. Violin Solos-

Strass.

Spring Song .. Mendelssohn. Tranmerei

Schumann.

4. Selection of Popular Songs

5. Waitai Poi

Dorothy Foster.

Arthur Hill

Ô p..-Local: Time Signal. Weather Report, Stock and Announcements.

Quotations

8.05 p.m.-A Relay from the Po

"All right," the man muttered Egyptian tomb newly discovered | Hing Theatre (Chinese).

at

was stabbed in labourer.

11 pa-Close Down. as he turned towards the stairs.

near the Pyramids, by Prof. Selim

6.05-10 p.m.-European Programme| "But I 'aven't faished with

Hassan, Professor of Egyptology from Z.E.K. on a frequency of 640 that blarsted mongrel

yet." be added loudly. pausing in his de Cairo University, his foreman kilocycles.

the back by a 8.05 p.m.-Derickson and Brown scent and glowering upwards

11. Over somebody else's. Shoulder. the woman.

12. The Little Dutch MilL The injured man was hurried to 3. One Morning in May. hospital. Then Prof. Hassan him. You oughta be in pictures.

8.18 pm Hawaiian Music. self began to feel unwell and the attempt to open the tomb had to be Rock me in a cradle of Kaina

Maybe it's the Moon. postponed.

On the Beach of Waikiki. The tomb that of Kaum Baef. Flo Hanakahi

"That's as may be," she return- ed. withdrawing into the bedroom, and closing the door quietly and firmly after her.

When Bill Paulin re-entered the his 6th July parlour his scowl announced

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Amoy

San,

TAKAO via Swatom and Fukuken Marn

AMOY

Thurs., 14th May

• Cargo only.

non-success.

“'E's dead." he grunted.

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a son of Chefrem, a king of the Kohala March Fourth Dynasty and builder of Hosolulu March.

Pm-Marek Young Crummel, the dead the Second Pyramid-was the sec- Orchestra. man's grandson, got slowly to his and unearthed in this district in the past fortnight. At the begin

Feet.

Weber and his

Songs without Words-Potpourri. Contrasts-Potpourri of Famous

Melodies (Robrecht). Forest Idyll (Esslinger).

"I never see "im," went on the ning of the month Prof. Hassan: seaman after a moment. "I would brought to light the tomb of ave, except fer that curs'd bull-princess, believed to be a daugh News Bulletin (Copyright by Reu dog. Come at me, 'e did. I'd ater of Chefren. kicked is ugly mug in if the wo Iman 'adn't 'bin there."

2.

9 pm-A Relay of the Daventry

ter). Prof. Hassan made several in-

9.20 p.Variety and Dance teresting discoveries about the Music.

Piano Solo tomb before his work was

made

Hooray for love

Patricia Rossborough.

Frances Day.

Silence greeted the brutal boast "Well, watter we do now?" he ended. He found marks

-80x

roared suddenly. "Go out, and by robbers, who had tried to dis- Comedy Fox-Trot buy flowers, I s'pose. Unless we've cover an entrance to the tomb. A My Lord, the Carriage_waits

con-Song-Swing 17th Maybin brought 'ere fer somethink false door facing east had

Jelse. If we 'ave, I wanter know fused them, and they concluded)

w'at it is."

the tomb was empty.

For Further Particulars Please apply to:-

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He had barely finished speaking when slow steps were heard de- scending the stairs. At the same mament there came a quiet-rat- Itat at the street door.

Almost immediately the parlour door opened to admit the widow Walker, followed by a small, mid- dle-aged man, bald of head, and soberly clad in black.

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