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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932.

BELGRADE EXPRESS DISASTER: MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL AFTER THE SMASH.

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A swift Belgrado-Zagres express train speeding through the night. crash into the blind and of a platform...Then this awesome scene of wracked locomotive, cara

A wrong turning. stand-on and, cari lying on their sides, cars reduced to mere splinters.

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LEPERENDEL ABETS FRANCAIS

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Gems of Peril

CHAPTER XLIV

d. J. Jupiter was the first man

HAZEL TROSS HAILEY

on deck. Although 到 Was other, leaning on the rail

bis natal works retiring hour, be was still dressed He was the re is hea Kaptain ferahlei came hour- rying down on the badge, and together the two men a-taped, go the

port rail. Bates and Mary for

lowed.

"What's th24 mafter vuption **** Bates inquired somewhat nervously, He had a ta tamaa. inordinate fear of seekivant on sea, and ever Mary telt a childat impulse to push to the captain and elin to hos kund until the danger was wwwn.

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"We're fast in a rel,” Captain Hendricks was explating to r lupiter. "She's apparently Hurt the engineers say she's mak ing no water below For the evil. to be well estuck.”

an you get off by

Mr. Jupiter askerl,

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• tutyẩng the prospert in every di-: tion. They were all very much 1, which must have been i Isconsaging.

He avoided The Inundward side, Alary abserved, but whether this was cle to her prisence there, or To the View which ensisted of vinay sex aunt of which old Fort Jefferson prison

reared its ugly

bead she did not know.

of the beat, and also bernure his Presently, to give him the range,

at had begun to get on her nerves, she resked to go below

l take a nap. She met a steward with a tray, headed for Dirk's state- | rom, and stopped him. She real ranged it a bit to make it more in- youradren. Then she had the steward

. wait while she wrote a note.

son only three words.

"We have a try at it totaorrow

it

morning. I'm afraid we'll be then one side of the salon and sent have a tug out of Kin West though To give as a pull.“

"Do what you think, best," Mr. Jupiter answered anddiy,

shouldn't hav Cams 4 to night," the captain continued, "but the moon made it almost, like day, and Eve been around here so much

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"Battered but not shattered," was Mr. Winston Churchill's description of himself when, as pictured here, the British states. Man left a New York hospital to return to his hotėl

mean whose courage was not of the was impressive particularly to a physical sort. Mary, listening to) the encounter between the two with loudly beating heart, opened her

Mary pulled a bool, from the rack that along, too She promised her Dirk after he had bunch.

elf that she would drogo in and see

Once she heard an sitereation out l'amor na trifle when Loma had · steward herause he had lurked upstanding there. on deck. De Loma was berating arons. Captain Hendricks was still, the liquor cabinet, ut Mr. Jupiter's order, as it turned out. Mary dis very low, "The steward just sur-

"Keep your door loewed," he said:

1 thought I would make it oven missed it from her mind, antil a prised him trying Me. Jupiter's |

afs. This changel isn't used : cept for small fishing craft. und apparently some of the buoys have drifted over. Ser that mid-channel hey there

Vinlent knocking at her dour forced door. That's what he's so but and her to take notice of it.

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bothered about. Though I reckon he'd like to have a drink, at that. Good thing Jupiter's got the only shore." boat-1 think he'd try to row to

asked hopefully,

"Are we off the reef yet?" she

white-hot rage.

Lol was in towering,

1 pointed to what looked like atted. "Am I a rust on this damn "What's this all about "he smart upturned funnet to Mary. It was: fishing-smack loating almost in the shalow the can't get service from these deaf 12 27 not? Why hip cast on the water.

"Mid-channel buoy, and it's stickitab I want a drink, and I want at the job of dislodging the strand-j

mutes you've got for waiters on this All morning the crew had worked ing right up on top of a reer with it now, do you hear Tell this cubed "Gypsy," first dropping an an only about five feet of water over

think I am, a baby 7" Lotus out that key! What does he cher off the bow and trying to pall her forward with a winch and then "Take your troubles to Captain repenting the performance of the Hendricks. He's in Mary replied,

command." stern. But the lovely white-and- Kold yacht was firmly seated upon a rock, and there she remained, as alluring a sight as Circe of old to the tired and grubby shermen now plying toward her?

it Forturately we were coming

in slow, just barely turning over."

"Where are we?" Bates askeil. "Just half mile from the pier at Fort Jefferson where fin tended to make fast. In another. live minutes we'd have on the That's Dry Tortugas there a couple of miles off the starboard beam."

They turned to look, and the ray

going fishing in the mor

ing then," Mr, Jupiter said cheer-

fully. "How about it. Bates ?”

"Fine."

"We'd better be getting a little sleep. Ought to be out by six any way. They blte better early in the

"Yes? Well, there's something else 1 want to know--why doesn't that ratio operator send my mes sages?

"Doesn't he?"

shakily

the President's signature after

the Senate had catified it.

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"No luck. We're here till we can of the big lamp in its white tower swers before now. What's happen-tain shook his

"No. If he did, I'd have had an-get d tug to pull us off." The exp swept across their faces and off inting to my trunks? Damn It, If that balmy before then. You know what head. "He be the moonlit night.

"Didn't you get any barracula?" There was no other expluation. "I'

hotel seizes Hem, I'll hold you re- think?" He whispered, almost "No. No luck there.", ir. Jupi-1 sponsiblet"

She almost ran to her own cabin, leefully. "I think it's that old ter called a deck hand to bring locked herself in and let the tears Mary smiled

prison that gets his goat! He's so their catch up from the dinghy "come. Then, realizing that "You Blatter me. As I said bejittery now he can't eat. And when uldn't want to try to bring one could not go up on deck again with- to see." fore Captain Hendricks is the man appetites fail on shipboard, a man's if those into that cockleshell. Got out exciting curiosity, she sent a

That

either seasick or got the fear of the boat lousy yet?" hell-fire in him."

stoward to ask Bates to lens her) "Sorry, sir." the captain replied. his half-complete "picture puzzle." morning. Everybody back in bed was apparent that Captain Hen arrived, and even

From his cholee of expletives it, In mid-afternoon the fishermen "And now there's something the If she must be a prisoner she could now. There's nothing we can do to dricks had already been seen, and Loma was at the rall to watch their Key West to order a tug, but it

the sullen De matter with the radlo. Tried to get at least be doing something useful. help, and we'd only be iu the way."acted his refusal to that of his coming aboard. Any kind of ne wouldn't work. Couldn't raise any.

(Continued on Page 11.) The day that followed was one of subordinates. De Lan

was p

tivity was better than the stillness one." A sudden thought made him Unalterable tedium for those pealing to Mary as a last resort, and itter lack of human association look surplelously in De Loma's di- left behind while the thing porty hia bravado was fast crumbling.

He was almost beside himself, and from which he had been suffering, rection. "It I thought cruised happily about. Mary sat in Mary shut the door and an instant Mary called out involuntarily an

"Oh, what marvellous luck!" tampered with it anyone had a deck chair, a book in her lap later she heard the captain's low, the boat came alongside and she from a moody

De Lemn brought his cyoa back watching the unexcitet labours of stendy yoice.

contemplation of the distant fishermen through a

saw several shining fish in the Fort Jefferson prison, turned and telescope loaned her by the captain down there, De Loma. I suggest novor saw such beautiful fish belative gaze followed him,,

"We've a sick man in that cabin bottom. "What arc they? walked away. The captain's speen- I was not very entertaining but it you lower your voice. Better still, fore." Both Mr. was better than nothing...

Jupiter und The burning sun drove Bruce and stay up on deck. What were imbed out, albelt rather stiffly, when Mary went down to ECO | Bates were grinning us they Dirk was ofther asleep or felgned Louie downstairs, where they bothering Miss Harkness about? played interminable games of soli Miss Harkness is not to be an and came up the gangplank, him. His stony unresponsiveness taire. De Lemn prowled the ship never!" like a enged animal. He had run out of cigarettes long since, and his De Lonia oboyed without a word. nerves were all n-jangle. He roved There was something about the from one end of the ship to the

sturdy figure of the captain that

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"Kingfish." Bates replied, "and was beginning to 'wer her spirits they're rightly named, too. What a down at last. It was not human. fight one of those fellows grave met she felt, to be so stubbornly resist. He knew I was an amateur so he ant oven to the ordinary claims of

mve the works."

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