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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1932.

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Bri- This isn't war-time scene--but a protest against wars. tish radicals wore these mask recently to attract attention as they distributed literature opposing the manufacture of poison gases for military use.

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War scenes were spacted in Ohio's coal strike zone when new violence, costing the life of an 18-year-old boy and the dynamiting of two, bridges, braught national guardsmen into action. When a crowd of 1000 pickets defied authorities escorting workers to the Provident mine in Belmont county, troops were rushed to the scene in an armoured car. Picture shows guardsmen with drawn bayonots after repulsing an attack.

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LEAP YEAR BRIDE

by Laura Lou BROOKMAN

BEGIN HERE to-Ùat.

God keep

Cherry Bizen, pretly 19-year-old daughter Molher."

wenithy parenia, fall in love with Dan Philips, newspaper

reporter, She quarreke

you!--Your Loving

Thoughtfully Cherry studied the

with her father about Dan, leaves he and, cheque. Five hundred dollars

klak advantage of Top Year, noska Dan seemed a lot of money now, try her.

Two

They are married maid for the fint time months before it would have been Cherry finds us what

to

are

money. Her struggles with choosework lack only the price of a few dresses. discouraging, Dixle Shannon, muvie critic of How had her mother managed to the News, a friendly with Cherry, She send such a sum? Cherry knew

ut the News.

mela handsome Max Pearson, who alan works Her father scrutinized household

One morning several weeks after her mar- accounts, paid all the bills. ringe Cherry received a letter in the mir

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CHAPTER XXIL

Cherry did not need to look at

and cotize if the ittter. She had recognized her mother's band writing.

fortune!

It

must have required scheming and

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Four men were shot and more than a score injured in a hand-to-hand battle between police and A crowd of Communists who stormed the city hall at St. Louis, to demand relief. In the above pic- ture, two policemen are seen hurling tear gas bombs at the retreating demonstrators. One of the bombe is indicated by the arrow. Eight detectives and a policeman were injured before the crowd, was dispersed. Forty alleged rioters were arrested,

"It's so terrible," Cherry said brokenly. "Let's go inside."

The other woman followed her.

Mrs. Dixon was not the sort to breakfast dishes were to be wash-Joying the fresh air.

sidewalk had Increased. Cherry scheme..

ed and the laundry sent. Cherry

wanted to tell them to go away. "Poor Mother?" Cherry said to had a full day's work abend. She herself. "I write her and send got to her feet, folded the cheque the box and started back up the fering

She had dropped the letter into That poor girl-surely in her suf- she Was untitled to the letter to Surah. I don't want and slipped it back into the en- street when a noisy police ambu-privacy! They were taking her to her thinking Dan and I are poverty velope. Then she placed it in the fance passed. A minute later a hospital to try save her life. stricken, going around in rags-top drawer of the big chest. She Cherry 'caught her breath. The Would she live? If the doctors Something slipped from her fin gers and dropped to the floor as cheque stared back at her

All at once the figures on the would decide what to do Inter. ambulance had halted in front of succeeded would she be grateful.

The dishes were waiting, stucked her home!

to them? she opened the envelopey

A paringly.

on the shelf that sorved as

The girl walked faster. The am- ΤΟΥ, folded strip of pale blue! Five hundred dollars- FIVE kitchen table. Cherry drew a pan buiance was backed to the door paper. Cherry picked it up, un-HUNDRED DOLLARSI folded it.

of steaming, suday water and be- [now. Two men entered the house She read: "Pay to the order of Cash-$$500,"

"You can't take it!" a small gan to ply the dish mop.

and a woman came out the door. Mr. Bergman, the janitor, stood in voice in the back of her brain After the dishes were washed Cherry began to run. "What is the entrance hall. "Well, it's too A cheque from the First National was insisting. "You aren't stary-and put away she began energe-it?" she asked the man in the bad," he said. "It's a bad thing to Bank for $500! Oh, what woulding or cold or helpless and you tically to clean the living room driver's seat. "What's happened 7" have happen in an apartment. I Dan say? Five hundred dollars can't admit to your mother or any- She worked as though getting that "Don't know, ma'am. Emergency hope they won't gel a lot of would pay all their bills and leave one else that Dan doesn't make room clean were the one import call."

balance with which in start a enough to take care of you.

rumours started-" Yount thing in the world. It wasn't savings account. It would buy the can't accept this money and ad- of course.

A group of youngsters, attract- "Do they think she'll get well?" No matter how hard ed by the noise of the ambulance,Cherry asked. new suit Dan really needed. Five mit your marringe isn't a success" Cherry worked it was the think formed an inquisitive semi-circle hundred dollarswhy it was

Mr. Bargman inclined his head ing. Those two persistent voices, jon the sidewalk, Cherry rushed upsceptically. "Who knows? She Cherry sank to the davenport. The one arguing that she should the steps. The woman by the ain't been eating much for a long Cherry turned to the letter. There were all the things which keep it, the other that she should door, was another tenant whom timo I guess. The doctor said she "My dear Cherry," her mother that money could do for her and send it back, continued their dual, she had seen but never before had a chance. That's all. She had written, "It has been a long Dan. It could hardly have conte at She finished with the living spoken to.

hasn't looked so woll for a couple time since I've heard from yoo and a more opportune time-the rent room, She collected the laundry] "What's happened? the girl months. I have been so worried. Surah is to be paid, Dan's new suit, the and put it out for the driver. Just naked.

(Continued un Page 10. badly crippled with neuritis and money he had borrowed,

before I o'clock when she was; "It's Miss Jamieson," the other unable to leave the house. I have "Take it!" a second voles, equal- [about to. ait down. to a frugal told her. "She has that little room no menna of reaching you except to ly far way, seemed to argue. Tunch Cherry went to the chest on the top: floor. Took some kind send this note because of promises "Accept it as a wedding present, and got out her mother's letter,

of poison." I made your Father. His bitter You wouldn't even have to fell She took paper aml pen and ink "Oh, how horrible!" refuses to have your name men-Dan---!"

and sat down at the table-Five "It'll be a mercy if she doesn't tioned and the situation is very Ah! There it was! She had minutes later she folded the cheque ve," Cherry's Informant con. known all along what was holding inside the note she had written timed sombrely. "Sho's been out "I can not endure the thought her back from accepting the and sealed them both in an en-of work. Hasn't paid her rent that you may be in want, perhaps money. She had known Dan velope. She addressed it to Mrs. for three weeks. That's why the actually suffering. The enclosed would never ngree to take money Sarah O'Fallon and finished it janitor happened to go upstairs cheque is to buy anything at all that from her parents. Dan was proud with a stamp.

and knock at her door. Bolleve you may need. Consider it a wed-and bitter still over things her "Thera the girl sighed aloud. me, I know what it's like to be out ding present If you wish--although father had said on the only occa-"It's settled!" I certainly never thought my sion when the two had mat. This She was so eager to have the

The door opened and the two daughter would be married with-$500 WOR rently her father's whole thing off her mind that, women stepped asido. Two mon out either of her parents present money though it was her mother without waiting to eat, she slipboaring a stretcher camo out. and by a justice of the peace! who sent it.

ped on her hat and coat and walk-There was a figure on the stret- Cherry, darling, the last month "You can't do it," the first volco ed to the corner post box.

chor, entirely covered except for has been a terrific strain on me.argued. "It's your loyalty to Dan Another week and it would be the pale face with its frame of I can only wait and pray that some that's at stake. You can't do the June. The sky was deep sapphire dark hair. The eyes wore closed time this terrible trouble may be one thing you know he wouldn't today, the clouds like down. Sun- but the face was contorted as lifted. If only I could know you want you to."

shine shimmered back from win though from pain.

hard.

of work with no friends!"

aro well and, not in need.. Day. Well, there was no use sitting down panes and the white pave. Instinctively Cherry drew back. and night I think about you. May there staring at the cheque. The ment. Cherry walked slowly, en-The crowd of watchers on the

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