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MOST AQUILINE WIRD OF BRITAIN.
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The Victoria Fire Station which
There is a fable of the birds it for so many years has been a which calls forth the highest which the wren hiden his little sulf landmark on Scochow Road was praise from visitors and others in the feathers of the eagle's back. fermally and oficially closed in who have seen them. I hope that and by this astute device wins the G. R. SAYER, " the presence of a large gathering in another fifty years things will computition for the highest flight. That Asociation is not more Acting Hon. Seg, who, in the main, comprised past he going stronger than ever."
Sounds Last Call, Hongkong. 21st August, 1926, and present members of the
curious than one I have been After
of volunteer and regular fire staffs.
photographs the watching, and is perhaps" less susc The ceremony
was enthusiastic guests and the old members of gestive. In a weed in North Devon but, says the China Press. none the No. 5 Co., had been taken Mr. two great this are keeping house the less tinged with regret on the Brodie Clarke was called upon to along with a pair of buzzats, and part of those who, in the past, cal out the station for the hast both establishments have young. must hear the have voluntarily worked from time. This he did by sound The young tits
the Alarm bell fol- buzzards crunching the sticka overs that station for the good of, the ing
which the crew, head, and maybe it was the fam lowing community.
The station. iilt and opened from their quarters above, shot sibilant squeak beneath the floor in 1899, has to egine down owing down and within four seconds that kept the young buzzards s
The difference between to the near completion of the new hd mounted the engine and, to teleas. Chapoo Road bridge which will the clanging of the bell, turned it big birds and small birds seems to than a matter of size, Itorm another much wanted link out into the road..
between the centrul and Hongkew Mr. Clarke was then called upon especially in behaviour to their
istricts.
ta remove the original foundation young. The sits new in and out of Many Attend.
plate which has been affixed to the next, brit deep, within the base There was a large attendance the West wall of the building of the buzzards! nursery of old fire volunteers and present sirve is was originally opened and half minute or seg to keep pare with members of the Are staff together intribed with the names J. S the hunger of the many babeat. with representatives from the Faren, John Prentice and M. The old buzzards were often mii-x French Concession, Brigade and Role. This ceremony was per.way, and left the brood unvisited the Capei, Chinese City and formed with the aid of a fireman's for many hours at a time. Tung Ka Poo brigades as well as to the sound of cheers. Imany prominent citizens includ-Cheers were again given for Mr. The big nest-a good yard arross ing Mr. S. M. Edwards acting Clarke Captain Dysen and the and very deepWas delightfully secretary of the Council, Col Fire Brigade to be followed with easy to watch. It was built ra tha1 W. F. 1. Gordon, CM.G., D.S O., the usual "Tiger" and "Firebelis." side branets hf a tall, Senten r Me. Brodie" Flarke first foreman Called upon for another speech rising on the southern slope of a of the No. 7 6... Capt. R. M. J. Mr. Clarke" again eulogised the very abrupt hil 'covered for the You could be Martin a former member of the Shanghai Fire Brigade ant de most part with oak.
M. scribed it as one of the most on the upper side and see the young Mons. same COMIJANY, lehapeaux. Chief of the French worthy institutions in Shanghai birds almost at close quarters, i
Mr. F. F. Durify the proceedings the; though the height of the nest from, fire briga and Goodale:
guests were asked to watch a the ground was forty feet. After a preliminary rereption small procession which consister sfered both a comic and a pathetic during which many old friends of a march past of old and new picture. The huge eyes seemed to¦ met and talked over ok times peur of the fire brigade. These monopolise the head: seemed to be!
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It seemed impossible that panse. core and meet us today to say-One “Amoskeag" Steamer onhelased a creature should "goodbye" to one of the land. No 168 bulit probably in the be possess this immense and splendid! - marks of the Brigade.
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Found on the ground was a patch) of the fur of slaughtered rabbits. They form, by far the bulk of the huzzards' food, both old and young: and doubtless the enormous meals! 67 flesh provided when a rabbit inj
us M. Le Commandant Chapeaux|DOROTHY PHILLIPS IN "SLAN-caught, enable the young to endure
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Continuing, Mr. Clarke said;~-~-~-~-~
to the old No. 7-Co., the Victorias. The elemental human appeal of jackdaws. in the cliffs just west of A cackle of alarm the character of the girl, suffering fracombe. "Fifty years ago we first talked
under about steam fire engines. Three friends, but determined to fight once made a concerted rush at the the misjudgment of her went forth, and five jackdaws at hongs made arrangements to im-ntil the Wrong is righted, buzzard. He flew back out to sea. port them and guaranteed to sup-brought out to the full by Miss and was a mile or two away be ply the coolies for each engine to phillips, who strengthens her place fore the most angry of the dawa. attend fires. Most of the staff
As one of the screen's foremost he had the last half-mile to him-- came from the hongs and in con-emotional actresses.
Occasionally self," gave up the chase... The great sequence there was much friendly here are touches of natural humour hawk did not once turn on his rivalry. I am sorry that there enliven the picture, but in the pursuers, and gave no sign of pay- are no old members of the original main it depends upon conflict of ing them any attention whatever, No. 7 company present although character and the strange pranks except that he left the neighbour. there is present the son of one old played by fate in the development hood of their homes. Indeed, did member, Mr. Bobbie Fearon, her the lives of the principal figures anyone ever see crow or hawk and one since dead and other hongliz the action.
oven cat retaliate on the smaller men made No. 7 Company. "In Although there is no obvious weaker things that mobbed it? those days there were no water- moral to burden the story, it dues Why is this? Consciousness of works and water was always in point an inspiring lesson in the ovil, inability to resist, or the sur- great demand so there was great pluck of the girl who refuses to render to a higher passion.-B. T. ing in E. E. Telegraph Office competition to see who could get te beaten even when everything Hongkong..
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