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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL: 30, 1936.

LAST OF THE

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Adapted by CHARLES REED JONES from

the Mera Goldwyn-Mayer netur

Lilico, a Tofoan maiden, ie in love with Mala, a Tupee war riar. Taro, the chief of the Ty poos, demands Lilleo for himzel, but Afula, invoking the ancient the tribe, proves his right law of to her. Mala and Lilleo

Tupees who visit the among Captain fnckley on his schooner, which has dropped anchor in the Ingoon. After a drunken re- vel, that lasts far into the night, the Tupees return to their island. But, Mala, and five other war riors, tricked by Buckley with the connivance of Tern, are held on the ship. Mala fights furiously to escape, but he is beercome and locked in the hold. · Retu

the island from the ing to schooner, Taro claims Lilleo na hie 100 and forces her to -merry him.

coconnut

own

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and

is Yours to Command

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8 a.m.

May 6th Pres. Jefferson 8 a.m. May 10th Pres. Jackson 8 a.m. June 3rd Pres. McKinley 8 a.. June 13th Pres. Grant

Pres. Cleveland Pres. Coolidgo Fros. Taft Pres. Pierce Pres. Hoover

1

8 a.m. July 1st Pres. Jefferson

EUROPE, NEW YORK

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Naples, Genoa and Marseilles.

8 a..

|ami a sleeping mat of woven pandan, breaking tell in the quarries. Men the leaves and roots of the pandanus fell at his alde and wero carried tree. From the supply-shed, they away to die. New men, fresh from were hurried along to the only sleep the near-by islands replaced them. ing shelter that was provided for the The overseers droned out their never: Polynesian labourers: a flimsy shock changing "Werk, work," of twisted bamboo, thatched with the Mala inboured 05. long, tapering leaves of the palmetto, But, the five months had wrought and roofed with ninu, overlapping morkel change in the once PP

Турсо warrior, The graceful, curvos mpts of the men at of his sinewy body gave way to bul work in the phosphate quarries ging, knotty muscles, ready, It seemed, were sentiered about the hard cor- to burst through the deep bronze skin al floor. On many of the mats were of his arms and legs. His fine, black pitifully small bundles, wrapped in

in hair, matted and unkempt, was the tap, containing the few treasured dirty white of the powdered phos. belongings of the owners of those plate. He looked much older, like mata. Under the direction of Reil- the veterans of the quarries about ley, one of the overseers, Mala and him. Weariness was written in every Pres. Monroe his mater

still Pres. Van Buren disposed of their mats wherever they could find line of his face, yet defiance

room smouliered in

in his eyes.

Pros. Garfield A shrill whistle Bounded over the Pros. Poli far them. Here, too, they discarded their own pareus, and donned those

barren

wastes e

of the quarry. The Pres. Adáms supplied by this company. Then, men turned from their tasks and ran picking up their cups and bowls, to answer the summons of the over- they began their weary march overseer. Reilley stood in earnest con- with Commandant Brunnen. A long, lay shack of pink and the dry, hot coral to the quarries. white coral looked out

the

Phosphate is mined in open quar. Hastings quickly lined up the mon for sen. Its broad verandah faced theries Packed tightly

monthly inspection, lone, dilapidated pier on the island harder coral, it is dug loose with Brannon of Patum. The Island, itself, one of picks. Deeper reins are blasted. Asly with little show of interest, for: the muny barren, atolls of the South the phosphate in excavated, tall pin- other, more momentous, matters were Seas, viewed from this office of nacies of coral, frem ten to thirty

nind. on his tho Ocennie

Phosphate

"Forty Company, fent high, rear up beside the pits.

has made no hotter work he asked Reilley. sumed the

Nature of an endless graveyard. For the burning sun ing place on the face of the earth, likely." shone down upon thousands of tall, fon as the workers, digging and j "I know it, Chief; but, there it is. slender pinnacles of glaring white blasting, descend into the pits, the Right at the end of that tunnel, coral, standing like county posed ily, and no breath: of cooling air can to run straight down between the rows sun burns down upon than stead-there-pure phosphate--and it seeme of forgotten tombstones. Exposed to the glaring rays of the relentless ever reach them.

coral."

།

CHAPTER IX

over

among

this

verantion

the their reked down the lino casual-

feet

under the coral7" "It doesn't seem

He

sun, but shielded from view and' Reilley lost no time in dividing thei "I'll take a look. You and last- from the welcome breath of the new men into squads and assigning ings keep an eye on the men,"

them to their several tasks. Mala patted the pistol in his holster sig- cool trade-winds, men sweated their

tasks between these sombro and his group joined a squad of ex-nificantly, "I'll be back in

n fow symbols of death.

perienced men, working deep in 4 minutes.

ticks. Sun-madness, tropical fever, and wide pit, swinging their heavy

Main stood at the end of the line strange near the entrance Luberculosis

decimated the native

Mala, awkward with

the tunnel. workers almost monthly, but, ench tool, watched the older man next to Brannon called him and ordered him month, some black-birder brought him as ho chipped the precious phes to show the way. Mala hurried for new men to take the places of those phate loose from the intermingled ward, his chains clankinge na he tried who gave their lives to civilised in coral. Expert with his pick, this man to run. He lit his fatri, his candlenut

difference. Only three

to

dustry. A fresh relay was being stuck to his task with a mechin- torch, and plunged into the cavern, As

landed now from, the dirty, white schooner that was noored to the Patua, he contrasted strikingly with pler, Robbins,

the Mute of the ship,

Mala. herded the men into a double file years, he stared straight

to march them up the winding roadway to the office on the cliff. smooth

in they walked further into the tunnel, П Tow rumble sounded behind them. Old

dully the still air of the pit. They turned listless eyes; his

once to retreat. A heavy hail of coral and

blocked the add to plunge Arm like Mala's,

The Commandant and the accumulation lowered his

through. nger from above, danger

waist

and worn his Then, a great cracking sound rent

Captain Buckley went ahead to rot ured; ** was ashy gray in Main, alert to the

the

block

port to Brannon, Commandant of of the encampment and to collect his his matted hair. But, Mala did not eaught him roughly around

see these things. He saw only the and threw steady swing of the pick, and, soon, of him back, as a great

coral

crashed the grasped his own pick and awung

rewani.

The slaves, for such they were destined to be, were called one at a time. Brannon looked them over

ud nodded his

approval. "Mala!" Robbing called. Mala

stepped

it in clumsy imitation of the man at his side.

down before them.

Now, Mala led the wee

Brannon

The

dense

roy

the

closu bohind

him. head through When the day's work was done, guided by forward obediently. near marked the entrance body ached, and he, lagged for behind As he staggered on, when the tired slaves began the long of

of coral fell march back to their sleeping quarters screah filled the passage. Their erude meal of coarse bread and hesitating an instant, Mala ran back kokopa was doled out to them before to find Brannon. The

that chunke Never

the tunnel.

A tortured.

around reed

Midnight May 8th

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He walked slowly, heavy, iron bands, held together with a weighty chain, were focked to his ankles, His face was that of a beaten man who looked forward only to the re. lief of death. mandant and

asked Buckley. "A tougfa baby! I'd advise you to bestial rellah, but Mala, sick and tired, Mala tried to extricate the white man, keep them on him Aill he comes to his spirit broken, had no appetite for no longer a boss to be hated and

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ling the two men in a tomb of coral received his equipment: a tin cup For five gruelling months, Male and phosphate. and bowl, a colourful cotton parc, suffered the strength-sapping, heart.

(To Be Continued)

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