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THEY WON'T FORGET

Serialisation of the Warner Bros. Film Commencing at the Queen's Theatre To-day

CHAPTER IV

word of witnesses euch one of which might have been guilty of the The men Andy Griffin like to re- crime? Witnesses of this kind are fer to as 'aristocrats were mute as present wherever injustice is pres- the little man paced back and forth

ent! Their names are-Hatred

Can

Andy Griffin leaped into the fray like o raging lion.

and suddenly halted-fixing them Fear-Prejudice!" with n

n lean out-thrust foreninger. "Well I'm

that man! And I've solved 1!! You should have thought

"The detence speaks of witnesses of all these things before-but you

of whom' he says, 'might didn't! Now you're frightened! It's grown too big for you. Well, it's not ve ucen guilty of the crime, Gen- it's not tlemen, we don't need witnesses to grown too big for me. You started com

convict Robert Hale! That rope of it, my aristocratic friends-but I'll circumstantial evidence convlets him Anigh

here and it! To-morrow morning-at and you know it! I stand nine o'clock I put Robert Hale on tell you that you, too, will not fail trial for the murder of Mary Clay in your duty to society-to human-

noching and no one in this world itv

ity to

justice to the unavenged ine!"

blond of Mary Clay!—that you WHI The me fled silently out of the

carefully

the evidence that District Attorney's office.

you will remeber the oath you have Sybil's prayer that 'someone taken to be impartial and unbiased somewhere might be found to fight-and that you will bring in the for her husband's Ireedom-had been only verdict you can honestly bring nuswered. Gleason--a lawyer from We, the jury, find the defendant, the Hales' home town-one of those Robert Edwin Peary Hale, guilty! rare souls who think more of human Guilty!! Guilty!!" rights than of retainers-had arrived The mob broke into wild cheers several day

days before.

when the jury finally returned the Robert's

mother, having scraped verdict of Guilty and these were together enough money for the long renewed with maniacal frenzy when trip, was on the overland bus which the judge sentenced Robert Hale 10 was past due and Sybil was waiting die in the electric chair.

in tow.

at the station to meet her. As the Sybil's desperate plea to the aged pathetically fragile figure stepped Governor-whose own political fu- from the bus, Sybil saw that a huge ture depended on his answer-re- and voluble fellow-passenger had her sulted finally in commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment. Again Robert Hale's wife and mother the unsulated blood-lust of the mob rushed into each other's arms, and broke out. It Was with difficulty the fat woman gushed approvingly, that young Hale was put aboard the "Say, you two get along fine. Not a train bound for the penitentiary, all like me and my daughter-in-law. He sat handcuffed to a guard as I was having quite a conversation the train thundered on through the with your mother-in-law hi the bus. night. Across the aisle was his wife. She and I got to be great friends." She leaned toward him murmuring She paused to catch her breath. "I

eager, broken words of encourage-

was telling her she ought to go and ment; "Won't it be marvellous, dur- see the trial while she was in town! Jing, when we're all three together |

HOW IT BEGAN Beranier

HANDBALL

ROMÁN PUBLIC BATHS CON-

- TAINED A COURT WHERE PATRONS EXERCISED WITH A BOUNCING. BALL STRUCK WITH THE HAND AGAINSTA, WALL, THIS GAME, DESIGNED TO PRODUCE PROFUSE PERSPI- RATION PREVIOUS TO A COLD. DIP, WAS THE BEGINNING OF MODERN HANDBALL.

John Zor- бюзик William Dunn Manville Ro

Of course, there isn't any doubt from again-won't it? You-your motherGEOT

wwww.

what my son writes me but that Hale and I? And it won't be long- is guilty-and

a new trial

the electric chair- send him to maybe another six montlis may

stijl."

be a year! You'll get a ne The little old lady crumpled to the you'll prove your innocence and ground in a dead faint.

then--then, darling-we'll do all the

"I told ya we'd get good seats if funny little things we used to-oli we waited all night!"

over again-take bus rides up Ri- The speaker was one of the morbid verside Drive in the fall-boat-rides mob that filled every inch of avall to Coney Island in the

summer-ride able space in the courtroom and for the chutes-hold hands and kiss blocks around, avid to fatten on the while we're going through the

the dark misery of a fellow mortal. Vultures tunnel-We'll be so happy-" waiting for bones to plek.

the train began to slow

BERDANIEL

genero

graiss

QUEER

AN EARLY ENGLISH TRADER, SUP- POSEDLY USED TO PLACE THE LATIN WORD "QUAERO”(SEEK OR INQUIRE) AFTER THE NAME OF EACH CUSTOMER WHOSE CREDIT WAS DOUBTFUL. THE WORD, PRONOUNCED AS “QUEER” WAS PICKED UP AND WRONGLY AS- SOCIATED WITH LOW GERMAN "QUEER" (OBLIQUE)-AND THUS CAME TO MEAN ANYTHING NOT NORMAL-

Copr, 1928ky 'nišek Prature Bydlenir, Joe, Try, U. B. Pal Orbit rietats reservesk

of the "Mossies"

A "Naval War" at Singapore

By the Naval Correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian"

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Prosecutor Griffin was eager to be down to a screeching halt. off with a blood-stained garment of A

murdered giri an Exhibit A. the th of glowering men led by published from the commanders In they found a firm bed on which to filled up and there was no longer

the

guunt brothers of the mur

A great war has been in progress a barrow could move in the areas them was south-west, and it blew for more than a decade in and around that had not been rebuilt on the across a shallow valley through the new naval base at Singapore, 4,000 concrete piles which were which a tidal stream formerly TDN. but there have been no dispatches gradually sunk into the ground until This valley, however, was being the field, and there have been but rest. Into every hole that the la- water. Yet the carrier of infection rare and casual mentions of the cam- bourers dug for the construction was undoubtedly A. ludlowi and her paign in the newspapers. The enemy work water seeped from the sur- breeding-ground was brackish wn- has now been routed. Most of his rounding marsh, and in that water ter. What was the explanation? strongholds have been captured, and the mosquitoes bred. The fight though guerrilla warfare will con- seemed endless.

The health officer and his staff tinue, though now and again.new

went over the valley foot by foot,

three Rain came in drenching day

was

of

Nearby, between two husky balliffs, dered girl, rushed in-forced the de- sat the haggard victim, Robert Hale. tective to unlock the handcuffs about The two tragic, black-clad figures, Hale's wrist-dragged him down the acated near Gleason, attorney for the aisle-between the frightened pas defence, were Hale's wife and his sengers and into the dark-to a mother.

tree where torches flared. Among those present in the section

the train sped on.

"ying bases" титу be established The small band of workers under looking for, breeding-places in any reserved for news-garblers and ple- Some days later Prosecutor Crimin and call for suppression, the mailg- the health officer tolled all hours of stray, pools or unfilled holes. They ture-snatchers were Blil Brock of the was in his office receiving the connant tribes are more or less under the day, week after week, wet season found Advocate-Price of the

none. They then examined Star-and

gratulations of

control. The medical department of or dry season. There were not a the filled-in river-bed more closely. of Bill Brock on having the sob sister; Dolly Holly. Among won the case when Sybil Hale was the Royal Navy has the upper hand score of them all told. The health Earth had been dumped from the the witnesses were Mary Clay's three announced. She came to return the of the mosquito cruft based on the officer personally did feld work and the centre the soft mud

sit fell it forced upwards brothers-Joe Turner, her boy friend money Grifin had sent to help her- Malayan swamps and jungle around did not conduct the campaign from --old man

man Buxton, owner of the Bu- self and mother out.

the new dockyard town.

G. H. Q. behind the. lines. His

im- the

the bed. This was impregnated with siness College-Tump Redwine, the Some days later Prosecuior Griffin Three

tribes of malaria-currying mediate janitor and giggling Imogene May was in his office receiving the con- mosquitoes have been dealt with: adlate staff consisted of two naval salt. It had dried out and cracked.

взем Bick-berth stewards and feld,serious enough to-day-whose gratulations of Bill Brock on having anopheles maculatus, anopheles um- specialist "mosquito searchers and The cracks collected the jealous babblings had started the won the case-when Sybil Hale was brosus, and anopholes Judlowi. confiagration.

announced. She came to return the Their habits are entirely different; eye for detecting larvae in the thou- camps, from which the new attack

a native overseer, men with a skilled there

were the

the series of training The exciting trial had almost run money Griffin had sent her to help the tactics which overcome one will sands of hiding-places available to had been launched. Every single Its course and Gleason was telling the herself and mother out.

strengthen the other. During the the enemy. The rest of the "army" crack in which larvae could be de Jury why he beileved Robert Hale The two men stood at the window campaign they have had some re was made up of two gangs of oiling- tected was oiled by the coolie gangs. innocent.

and watched the small Agure going sounding successes, as, for example, coolies, numbering about "In one word, Robert Hale in his down the steps. Neither spoke for a when A. ludlowi established bases in armed with spraying machinery simi- mounted a few weeks longer and

a dozen, The curve of admission to hospital testimony went straight to the core time, Then Brock said: "You know, the brackish waterhole of a tidal far to that used for fighting pests in then fell as steeply as it had risen. of things! The issue here is not to Andy, now that it's all over, I won-

river bed that was being filled up and orchards. establish his innocence or guilt Evi- der If Hate really did it."

caused 4,000 cases of malaria

Here it is of medical interest to dence! Since when does evidence "I wonder, too -" said Grifin, three months among the workers on The first task was to discover the remark that some of the 4,000 cases consist of rumours-whispers-idie 'almost Inaudibly.

the new docks. And A. maculatus lairs from which the mosquitoes during the outbreak were treated talk! Since when can we accept the

THE END

cunningly seized upon the work were coming. When a case of ma- with atebrin, a new synthetic drug, done for the expulsion of A. um- laria occurred it was quite possible instead of quinine, and that the re- brosus and turned it to his own ad- to determine from blood tests which cords of the naval hospital showed vantage. As fast as the shaded, overgrown, sluggish waters in which variety of anopheles was the carrier, a remarkable decrease in the "re

e and since it was known that the lapse rate"; that is to say, the the umbrosus forces were recruited "cruising radius was rarely more number of patients per hundred who were cleared of jungle undergrowth,

half mile,

the attacking party

arty had

recurrent attacks of the fever exposed to sunshine, and made to could concentrate their search on a was lower than it had ever been be- run as limpid streams the females of of maculatus

particular

100, swarmed to them, since and works outwards from the place

type of breeding-ground fore. The death-rate, Was the

markably were exactly where

low; only one European new conditions

the patient slept. For the and five natives died. This la fine what they needed as nurse

as nurseries for the next hundred thousand.

mosquito usually bites after sun-

sun- tribute to the work of the hospital The British forces engaged have down. The place where the patient staff, for there were only 120 beds worked in the day had no bearing in the building, and at one period been small in numbers and terrine- nn ally

hard worked. The traditional on the subject. As an example of during the outbreak the staff were objection of both the Navy and the the work done we may examine the dealing with 900 cases,

profession to self-advertise Way the source of the great outbreak

of 1932 was tracked down.

The oil used in the campaign was' has prevented any

tribute

Admirally fuel oil, heavy and Diesel. being paid to the men who have led

curve of admissions to the Formerly it had been generally ne- The the campaign, but, since he is now hospital began suddenly to mount copted that the only effective killer retired one may venture to mention very steeply. All the first cases of larvae was kerosene, but the from one big group of but- practical experience at Singapore has

The prevailing wind towards disproved this theory.

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ACROSS 1 Where painted faces are much in evidence (two words, 7). One of the U.S.A. (7).

10 Frank to the Turk perhaps (7).

11 Evidence of amusement from a

circle (4).

12 Father led the rout (5).

13 Obvious numerical misstatement

in circular form (4),

10 Great show of men in semi-cls-

(7).

order

17 An aged relative and one of the

girls in Spain (7).

18 A war véssel (7).

21 Put out, in a sporting way (7), 23 Wherein Caesar was at home

(4).

24.1 heartless 'this.'

would burn (5),

Rea product

25 Draw the line in one way and

the rest comes first (4).

28 This obviously is not a straight

game (7)....

20 This reptile is anally shut up

(7).

30 The business of this plot ik growing, (two words-3, 11),

DOWN

1 No bellet for the idenllat (7);

2 Perlod mostly affirmativo · (4)]. 9 Escape (7).,

4 One often hears this before a

atrike (7)

5 Skilful (4).

0 Only part of this kind of cako

Is made: (7).

7 A cheerful flower is something

to ridicule (13).

8 This kind of art is to be seen in "Punch" (three words-5, 3, 5). 14 Vegetable (5).

15 The whole extent, by musical

simile (5),

19 This bit of Africa when upset Is excellent in the matter of

spirit (7).

20 A second person is necessary to

set this idea going (7).

21 Welsh town (7).

22 It's a good example to put a bit

of butter on the bird (7).

20 Barristera ilke to take it (4)

27 If the bard becomes this he many

be hit on tho head (4).

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