1932-01-04 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1933.

ITALY'S NEW WAR WEAPONS: BULLOCK CART IN BROADWAY.

INGA

Toy-like whippet tanks, drawn up in sallitary array, gave Signor Mussolini a glimpse of Italy's newnat fighting machinery. The government leader in picture above (the second horseman from the left) as the gazed with interest upon the tiny weapons

that stood little higher than the kips of their gunners.

The

of command Fifteenth U. 5. Infantry in Tientsin, has been given to Col.

J. Puri, above..

the

THE

te

SNAP"

REGD.

"Ideal for sporta

or general wear,"

Priced from $14.60 net

A new range in "Snap" hats. This adopiablo brim model is made of fine quality for felt and le obtainable in Brown, Buff and Grey shades.

HENRY HEATH

Obtainable from

-╚ཨཽrI **· ཿ"་" -- ་.

MACKINTOSH'S LTD

MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS

Instead of donning red Bannels or heavy overcoats when winter comes, elephanta in the London Zoo,are given a thorough oiling to prevent their hides from becoming dry and cracking. Photo shows Mex. Jumbo in the hands of a couple of keepers.

Gems of Peril

BEGIN BERK TODAY

Kirk Mr. Juglber le robbed and maruntidering the couage heat JAY TV

Te for her secremer, Mary Hacknere, The

HAZEL IROSS HAILEY

chief fail to get the famous Jupiter necklace | Wall, His face was nearly without Suspicion 19 to Marya Brodie, Wide, •xpression as such a sinister comm-

who is killed by a car as he aes to meet face rould manage to be.

Police veny the case, beberang Bude gimY.

AL-

komen, potter rejeter for the Ntur, vunducts though he kept his eyes axed as-

private www.iglum. He ducover a racetrack crook chard The Fly to whom sidously on a spot halfway between Yaldie owel mut 2. Bodies cont, found in sheir table and the strangers" läbi«.

the house, is recounted by the butter Bowen had the feeling that he was worn by "0.0-Futur" ħa "deeld the nahi

all attention,

*esť a střaer.

Mary's Dance, Dirk Stayther, beflezes Eddie'nalled for.

guilty wod Grabide her to a Bowen, fearing

waiting to ha sig-

further motor..y. They can make! He held up his finger, and Mike

up anit plans to mistry at uner, Mary mla Howen, bu a spons may where The Fy in maid Les her hiding. Dark colmos to take her home,

He is on bla way on lack up the "Jupper

wame swiftly forward.

"Check, please!" Bowen said in a carrying voice, Mike fumbled fur

necklace in his offer sale. Dirk prove his pad. Before he could find it, Fly not there Mary clasps the necken about her thrust jukt na theer strangers enter

the

we're

CHAPTER XX

few minutes, each with his own

nary manner.

Tell

Bowen whispered, "Put it on the cuff and I'll see you later. Juck to-morrow's payday. 1981 be around."

NEA

A picture of Prince Peter of

by Jugo Slavin, taken

bis

mother, Queen Marie, at the royal estate near Belgrade.

Right down New York's Broadway, a team of oxan and a cart load of potatoes. The potatoes, en route to President Hoover in Washington, were a gift from Governor William Tudor Gardiner and the potato growers of Maine. Note the commotion the strange procession` caused.

When handelida jammed the Panama Canal, blocking the passage of inter ocean ships, this big dredge was put to work to clea: the way, Torrential rains had undermined a hill in the Gaillard Cut.

drew an automatic out of his pocket "robbed that house, killed Mrs. Ju-

But when he first.

Bowen's temper gave way,

Howen and Dirk followed Mary's

Mide nodded wordlessly. eres and saw the newcomers, ton,

Dirk said, "I'll pay," and reached almost before she could teur her for his billfold, but Bowen held his fascinating Kuze from their arm goodnaturedly. Although, strictly speaking, none of "Lel it lay," he said, under his the three men were looking at her, breath. "I want to keep Welcome gripped them that afternoon. But "No, Al Capone, I have not," he called evidence he's got that a man named the Fly," (he grimaced and but at the necklaer gleaming like on the doormat here, and as long their eyes followed the departing said. "And what of it?" new blood against the snowy velvet as I owe him money Jack will lat Fio with almost hypnotic attention With a quick gesture Bowen muttered, "more Edgar Wallace!") of her evening jacket. She had me in. I've got a hunch Jack is all the way to the door. drawn it about her swiftly but going to get one of his periodic Once outside, Mary Bagged and handed it into the car, butt piter and then ran your brother clumsily. The greater portion al

down presumably to keep him from

Is the word of mads on at newspapermen in gen- against Dirk's arm.

#double- Even Dirk was touched, discon- necklace swung outside, "Dont go now,

it'll look as if, and me in particular, after looked at her sharply, in quick fear

to-night. Every once in While he that she was about to faint, he saw cerved, for a minute. Then he said starred yegg like that walter?"

Put that way, it did sound rather running,"

Bowen said quiet-gels the notion that it's the news-that she was shaking with sitent with good-natured scorn, "Oh, keep

reirelliously silent. ly, almost without moving his lips. papermen that are to blame for all laughter. Hysterical! He gripped it What if somebody does plug thin. Mary was

They sat in petrified silence a his troubles, and refuses to let one her arm tigaily and snarled at me? You'll get a good story." Her state of mind was hard to ex- plain, even to herself. She loved whirling thoughts, musking half-the premises. I don't want that Bowen, "I hope to God you're satis-

ned!* to happen right now."

"I don't give a damn what hap Dirk so much that just his physical hearted conversation. The party at Mike would have moved off, but, "Honey, I'm not having hysterics, pens to you," he said roughly. "But presence beside her in the car, the the opposite table ordered drinks, Bowen detained him.

honest!" Mary giggled. "It's just you've got a woman with you, re- touch of his cont-sizeve, his casual talked in low tones, and otherwise "Is that him?" he asked softly. the let-down. I never was so thril- membar. Take this whether you glance, weakened all her forces of comported themselves in an ordi- "Yes. Yes. I tell him. Thank led in my life! Wouldn't have want it or not."

mind and body. He dominated her und she could not help herself you" Mike answered, making nig-missed it for anything!" Mary ancaked glances at themifcant facial

He shoved the gun into Dirk's he was so calm, so utterly sure of contortions, und "Perhaps it will amuse you to out of the corners of her eyes. Was palming a coin Bowen handed him know there was nothing to miss, tap and swung off. As they moved himself and of the rightness of all one of them the Fly? All three fle hurried away before any more Dirk said sharply.

"You don't be down the street, Bowen's little tin- he was and stood for. wero dark; one quite handsame; could be said.

lieve all this claptrap, do you' can of a car began to shiver and But some traitorous part of her- He was the one who had Jumped

Three drummers from Terre Haute roar and give off explosions like a self persisted in balieving that in to his feet. Had they been in the

So one of those men was the Fly! or some such place, making the Fourth of July rocket. When they his own way Bowen was right, also. small dining room and left, returne Mary had become adept in road rounds of the speakeasies, and you turned into Broadway, Mary look. Might there not be depths of life ing by the front door? They might ing Mike's peculiar form of sign let this clown feed you a wild story ed out the back window and saw it of which the select, and exclusive be quite different men, perfectly language, and no wonder, for his about murderers and jewel-rob- turn, also, apparently following Ruythera had no knowledge? Might

"yegg harmless customers of the place. pantomime was more exaggerated bern. You've been reading too them. It was easily picked out in there not be truth even in a like themselves. Although "per-than subtle.

As an actor, Mike was much Edgar Wallace, Bowen. Keep the traffic, for its top was up-alike Mike, if the claims of friend- fectly harmless' was a strong denig-pretty much of a "mugger."

had ship demanded it?"" 1 to yourself after this, will you?" flimsy "one-man" top which AB

And if she had ever been sure of nation for any of Jack Shay'e cus-long as he kept his back turned to with anger or shame, Mary could coutrements since she rode in It.anything in her Hfo, she was post-

Bowen turned white, but whether apparently been added to its ac- tomers, if the place was really the the however, he was soft. criminals hang-out Bowen had Dirk

nid, "Ready "" Mary, pow not tell.

Ita curtains were all drawn against tive that none of those man had dering her

been a drummer from Terre Haute, nose, nodded.

"Have it your own way," he said the rain. Adroitly she managed to push the "All right, Gloria," Bowen said quietly. "Good night, Miss Hark- Something about that grotesque or anything like it. What had hap

Owner wrung pened Wha

clear enough-Jack Mthlace of they all and If, there

Slay heart sud a the collar of her wrap. As the moved toward the door, Dirk lead-can do" He lifted his hat. Un- heart and anger flooded her. Shay, still mulling over the signifi- party at the opposite table made ing. Mary following, and Bowen decided what to any or do, Mary

"Hark- discreetly silent, but her eyes to Dit you're a beast!" she said cance of that afternoon's tax!

Dirk. "You shouldn't have talked crash, had carried the name in their direction again, Mary anid Into actin

into action with

to him like that! Maybe Mike liedness" back to his friends in that exaggerated ser restlessly:

vility, coming forward to open the Dirk gripped

with

·

no overt move, even falled to look bringing up the rear, Mike leap pleaded an opy's arm and led to him, but I'm sure ho didn't mean room, and asked if it meant any-

ww

*

"We may as well go. They know door and said, "Good night." the urls where his coupe to Ile to us!"

thing to any of them. were about to leave, they saw Whether by design or not, he was stood

Several car-lengths away

It had meant a good deal to the "Mike? Who's Mike?"

Ho and his two me put my wrap on."

Mary tell him what she knew of Fly, naturally, almost at Mary's side, and directly stood Bowen's rattletrap. He start- The waiter. who had been no-

between her and the three wonteded to go toward it, then turned and Mike, and explained that he owed companions had slipped out the side where in sight a few minutes be

came up to the coupe and leaned service to Bowen for favours done door and came in again by the fore, now stood leaning with arms ale walked to the door.

front for the purpose of getting a No one of the men at the table through the open window.

in the past. crossed against a dilapidated side moved. The same strange paralysin "Got a gun?" he asked.

"You mean," Dirk sald slowly, look at her. It had been sheer had board which stood against the back seemed to hold them that had

(Continued on Page 18.) Dirk snorted.

moaningfully, "that all this sp

CAN YOU AFFORD TO WASTE?

A

GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR will save you money during the fall sad winter months. Prevent waste of left-overs... saves trips to market...makes it possible for you do all your food buying on bargain days. A small down payment puts a General Electrio la your kitchen tomorrow. Choose your model today.

GENERAL ELECTRIC ALL-STEEL REFRIGERATOR

Domancic, A pertinent Howm and Commercial Refrigerators-- Biscrric Wang Coole

On View at

The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.

The General Electric Co. (China) Ltd. ANDERSEN, MEYER & COMPANY, LTD.

Sole Agents,

MAN HING

TAILOR

PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED

Tel. 20780.

No.-G D'Aguilar Street,

WHITEAWAYS.

7 o'clock

PATENT NOS. (272629-272703

CLOCK

HERE'S

THE BLADE YOU WANT. SEVEN O'CLOCK

** A

British, mado Blade that fits all

Gilletto Type Raz-

ors, old and new style.

Packet of 3

$1.25 Packet of 10

$2.50

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW

8 Co., Ltd.