1940-01-02 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 2, 1940.

THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT

(Continued from Page 8)

Dr. Hox

began with a pompous speech, obviously inspired by official instructions from the Government.

The Queen Elizabeth, upon docking

"Every morning,” put in Aunt Rose, to go through all the at Southampton a few days previous-, "they have ly, had reported sudden whirlpools, shrubberies in the parks and cart away and a towering wave; one evening, to- | the suicides in an Army lorry. They've wards sunset, that spanned the ocean given up having inquests any ́more:

Driving they just bury them.” from horizon to horizon. northward with terrible power it had lifted the giant' liner bodily with it-- two miles from its course.

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I rose from the table. I could not

of doors

the

Shipping was not, almost at a stand- "The main purpose of this dugout," still, but the Government had fore-stand this any more, "I'll go for a seen this possibility and had for six walk around London," I said, "and

see what it looks like." "is to protect you he announced,

It was a typical April afternoon with Still more disturbing were the out-

apells of warm sunlight. against the violent atmospheric dis-months been laying in reserves of food.

breaks of lawlessness. turbances that we may possibly ex- perience. There is a chance that these disturbances may begin upon nights before May 3; we shall be advised of approaching danger by radio and the warning will be relayed to you by a series of short peals upon the church bells. If you hear this you must take shelter in the, dugout until the moon has set.

he con-

"But the critical period," tinued. "will most likely be from six o'clock upon the afternoon of the 3rd until the morning of the 4th. You will be free to take up your positions in four o'clock that the dugout from afternoon and must be there without fail by Ave."

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the

with

over.

The windows and "The trouble began," my uncle said,

at its King's Head public house at the cor- "when the March moon was full. One night a hundred or so hooli-ner of Ladbroke-grove were hoarded gans smashed down the doors of a dozen public houses and drank them- selves mad; then looted some restau- rants and grocery stores and beat six people to death.

were not only "Those hooligans drunk-they were crazed with fear as well. It must have been ghastly-in in our houses; "We're safe enough the glaring red light of that moon. ... they go for the pubs and drink them threes holding up people for their out, then career around in twos and

money.

"The Government have had to open He announced, amid applause, that a lot of emergency asylums. There's Charlie Hurst and his Trio had pro-a closed van goes by here every morn-

party

ing, with screams coming out of it. mised to entertain music that night, and the vicar would They've cleared all the London pri- sons and filled the cells with lunatics: bring his gramophone.

they're mostly pretty violent and want careful handling..

few I decided to go and spend a days in London with my uncle and Not only would aunt at Notting Hill.

I get the latest news at first hand but

it was also my duty to go.

How deeply I regret that I ever

sincerely went to London! How

I

wish that my last memories of the old to those been confined world had happy days in Beadle!

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Waterloo Station was more like deserted exhibition building than busy railway terminus, and the col- lector took my teket as if it were an

of

further out-worn formality

meaning.

no

The only normal things in London seemed to be Westminster Abbey, Rose. My Uncle Henry and Aunt

uncle and aunt were delighted to see me come up so well. I was hungry for for my lunch, but hungrier still

news.

"And now, uncle," I said, "tell me everything-just as if you were speak- ing to a man from the back of be- yond-an indeed I am!"

Uncle Henry-was-fond of talking, and eagerly seized the opportunity.

London, it seemed, had behaved. very much like Beadle upon receiving first approaching calamity. news of the

The people were stunned and incredu- lous: they accepted the assurances of the Government, the radio, and news- papers because they were not in a fit condition to reason for themselves.

to

The most serious aspect of all was something that I had not anticipated. The passing of each moon had brought freakish and terrible convulsions the

sea. On February 23 the giant liner Gibraltar had disappeared mid-Atlantic after one frantic, garbi- ed SOS, and not a single fragment had been found to show what terrible fate had befallen her.

DOG BITES

Are Dangerous,

in

a physician should therefore be con- sulted without delay if you have the misfortune to be bitten by a dog.

For the many minor injuries which occur daily, cuts, scratches, abrasions, burns, scalds, She-Ko provides a sooth- ing, rapidly curative treatment. It is equally beneficial for skin troubles of all kinds. Keep She-Ko in the home; obtainable from chemists everywhere.

Massive steel doors, like those to our dugout at home, had been built to Notting Hill across the opening Tube Station. The tube railways had and the for a month, been closed

fortresses against railway-men had been employed in halls into massive turning the tunnels and underground

the moon.

Massive barriers of reinforced con- tunnels crete had been built in the between the stations, so that if one entrance to the railway system broken down the flooding would be limited to that section alone.

TO-MORROW:

The moon strikes the earth

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