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THE- - HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1932.

FISHING BANKS WITH FROZEN ASSETS: RIVETLESS STEEL BRIDGE.

This Question

of Hats.

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This new bridge, across the Buyra rivar in Poland, has become an object of interest to the whole scientific world. For although it was built of steel, there is not a single rivet in it. By A special process, all parts have been welded together in a solid piece.

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M. Edouard Herriot (right) andsavouring to maintala order at a maas meeting in Paris in the interests of world disarmament.

A man likes to buy a hat at Mackintosh's. Not only be- caure he likes Mackintosh's hata, but because he can get what he wants with so little

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likea-the one which suite him, easy to wear and distin- guished to look at.

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Behind the coating of ice are the rigging and masts of the Babing schooner Magellan, as she appenced on réturning to port the olfer day, after a trip to the fishing banki.

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CHAPTER XL

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my, hair's saw white. Tell you alf

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hout it in the morning. Now yen tret it wasn't your

As Mary stand shivering with fault t was her turn tử pat. dread, uncertain what to the whe hies shoulder reassuringly. To heard the sound of parlocks and help him out, she changed the stil the bump of a boat as it hijeet.

against the suspended gangway.

"Can we get under way at stive ?

Picking up her skirts she ran Did you see Bruce and the Coun along the deck, and alust fell tess anywhere**

into the urn el Bates, coming api "They're on the pier the kid's the gangplank, She could have gone back for themt now. By the kissed him.

way here's something your fat

"Oh, Bates, I'm scared! The Fly friend sent you. He was sitting is aboard," she whispered. " my on the dock waiting when I came guest, and think he's prowling up-he wouldn't give it to the sal- around after the rubies. I just or.

He handed Mary a thick

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came out on deck al someone; ran from near Mr. Jupiter's door. vstope, furious, she tool. it to

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The flooded Tallahatchie river in Mississippi has made the picture above a common scene in the northwestern part of the state. It shows a farm between Batesville and Glendora, completely isolated except by boat.

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This nic view of one of the principal highways into Clanodra, slrows how 300 persons in the little town were marooned. The overflow of the Tallakatchie river blocked this bridge and other

avenues of scape.

burden. from her shoulders.

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limen frock, boiled egy-three minutės, just.” "Stay here." Bates commanded. A single sheet of note paper though she had dropped a heavy ned a plain white He unbuttoned his coat and fous-held the words "Here's the dope..

white shoes, a little blue eoni with 'She beanied at the old steward. brass buttons and a blue bæret. ened the revolver from its holster Keep theae. I stole 'em out of the

De Lonna pushed back his chair. under his arin. Staying in the morgue, und I've got to return 'em.

sun was shining in her "And um I huntry!" she ex-with a loud scrape. shadow of the upper deck he mov- Hut I couldn't resist telling you awoke. Mary stretched,

stateroom orthole when

she claimed, as she strapped on heri "You will excuse me, please." ousing wrist watch, noting with surprise! he said, bowing surenstically." ed quietly along the bulk-head the good news." She saw him stop and test Mr.1

her cramped muscles. She had that it was almost 11 o'clock. shall take a walk around the deck. There were clippings, yellowed,

There was no ond on deck, so He was taking it fairly well, at Jupiter's door. then disappear ringed about the word "De Lomapen so exhausted that she had

slept without moving. With the she went below to the dining that, Mary decided, after a criti- where the with a blue pencil and stamped on action, vitality rushed back into her salon. Apparently around the corner shadowy figure had run but two each clipping was a date the date refreshed young body, and she the only inte sleeper. Sen air and know what explanation had been she was not cal plance. She was curious to minutes before.

(of s appearance in 2L

Miami bounded out of bed, pushing her played its tricks on the rest, as given her to this sudden sea- The seconds passed like hours paper. The clippings, read in

well. She was hardly prepared, trip: surely he must have been as Mary leaned back against the chronological order, gave thu wall. straining her cars to catech newspaper account of the doings her rumpled silk pylamas as she eyes.

She looked like a alim boy in though, for the scene that met her dumbfounded to awaken and flad himself shanghaied in any such every sound. Then Bates re-of the celebrated French actress,

nigh-handed fashion. appeared so noiselessly that he Louise De Loma, on board a Haran to the porthole and peered out. vana line steamship way back in Bates had vanished from his post

startled her.

old

hair out of her eyes.

long since. Far

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De Loma sat stiffly in his chair,) Whatever it was, it was plain the at the foot of the table, stabbing that he had lost nla taste for red- "All serene," he reported, "The the year 1924. The steamship horizon line was something that at his grapefruit, with, a vicious haired young women with pro- man's door is locked and The line and all other purties concern might be ofther clouds or land, but spoon. At his left Louise sat list-mises in their eyes and no inten- Fly is back in his stutervored had evidently

In between was sen, a calm ex-lessly, looking Mary thought, alon of keeping them. Well, let Abreo, isn't it?" Mary anid "Yos." hushing up the matter pretty

He would not be unob heard him moving around and thoroughly, but enough had lenked panse with only here and there stille greenish about the mouth as m

to break the blue-green, though something eaten the night serve, wherever he went, even there's a light under the door, out through, the excited tales of mirror-like surface:

before and the roll of the boat though the excellent Bates was You run along to bed now and old fellow-pussengers to show up the There was an occasional roli of were not karacing, quite Brugo, his cabin, getting a little long-do- Henry Q Bates will take care of lady as an adventuress of an old, the ship as it was caught by his face like a thunder-cloud, sat ferred sleep. He was a prisoner things. I'll camp right up there familiar type, She was not de half-sea, and a slight quiver of the on Louise's right, and in the mas- with every man on the yacht his on the upper deck in chair where posted, but evidently she had been deck as the powerful onginestor's chair' at the head of the (Continued on Page 11.) I can see both your stateroom door only too happy to accopt the hint drove them through the Atlantic table Mr. Jupiter applied himself and Mr. Jupiter's. Run along, of Miamal police officials and rent 10 knots. It was such a glori steadily and not too allently to a and pleasant dreams."

turn to Havana immediately. Mary wrung his hand. "Bates, At any rate, she went threat-ous morning, and she felt so in generous plate of scrambled eggs

vigorated by hor night's you're a darling?"

oning that her husband would sue that the events of the night be "Hello, everybody!" Mary called But listen, what'a There was no record in the clip-fore retreated to the back of her est brightly, "and a pleasant mor: the programme now? We didn't pings of any suit being brought. mind like a bad dream.

nlug!" for good humour brought| find a thing in De Loma's room. Mary put the clippings back in Anything was possthie-any nice no response, Not a thing. Had to tear up car- the envelope, and laid it under thing, that is on a day like this. De Loma and Bruce barely nod-| pats and everything. That's what her pillow, Good old George B: Evan Dirk might have relented dad. The Countess did not even took mo so long. You didn't wen-to give her this to sleep on and forgivon her. She hummer look up, Mary slipped. Into a seat worry, did you? Anyhow, your She wont to the porthole

"Happy Days" na she splashed in at Mr. Jupiter's left the remain- necklace is safe-right here in old looked upward. There, on the sun the shower, then gave herself a ing chair was Captain Hendricks'. Bates' pocket." He reached into deck, as he had promised, se drubbing with a towel. Alled the but the doughty captain break- capacious inner pocket, and could see Bates' dark figure in itair with an extravagant cloud of fasted at no such citoto hours drew out the rolled up bundle of steamer chair, silhouetted against bath-powder, and set about dross- “A glass of orange jules, Frank, napkin-unfolded it bit by bit in the lighter sky, Sho falt **ing with a light beart. She don- some thin brown toast and n soft-

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