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The Rusalan army has taken to polo: The first match was played the other day in Moscow between two teams chosen from the Red cavalry and.coached by Mr. Charles Thayer, a well-known West Point player now attached to the Amer- ican Embassy.
The
LEARNING THE SEA
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BEST TEST OF CHARACTER
(By A. J. Villiers.)
London, ing spars; and a figurehead, and The last time we came up from her standing rigging set up with lanyards in outboard channels, in game Was watched by Litvinoff, Voroshiloff and a whole Australia with the barque Parma the real old style; and single host of Soviet officers and politi-a young British boy hid himself in topsails, and boarding nets and cians. The play was crude but en-the hold' and came up when we studding sails, and two brass can- thusiastic and gave great satisfac-
stan on the fa'c'sic head to break
tion to the military experts, who were three days at sca. He want-non on the poop, and a big cap- have now decided to make polo a ed to learn to be a real sailor, he the anchor out. I had not known regular army game.
said, in the only real school there that such a vessel still survived. full-rigged ship in Mr. Bullitt, the American Amwas; and since there were no A topsall bassador, umpired. Not content square-rigged ships under his own "Pity she's going to be broken with introducing baseball to the Bolshevists, he now claims to be flag he had to stow away in up," a longshoreman sald, seeing
me admiring her. foreign one to get a chance.
the father of Russian polo,
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INTRODUCED BY ENGLISHMEN
19841
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Broken up? A ship like that?
He was 17, and had been 18
Yes, he said; the Government was months' Apprentice in a steamer replacing her with a larger ves- He found the Cape Horn life pretty sel, 'and now nobody wanted the
His claim is correct as far as tough and hard; but he learned his old one. For who would buy a
Hel
full-rigged ship in this age?
Bolshevist Russia is concerned. It seamanship and the stayed. may even be true as far as Moscow worked with our German apprenti-
Who would, indeed. I would! ces, our Americans, Australians And I did, almost as quickly and is concerned.
as easily as the writing of those
salt
But polo was played in St. Peter-and Swedish Finns; he ate sburg when Bullitt was in his horse and he spliced, and handed words. I inspected her thoroughly
cradle. It was introduced in the canvas, and kept lookouts and
and took her on the spot. She 'nineties by General Hely-Hutchin-steered.
finishes her summer cruise with He was a good boy and a grand the 80 Danes, and then I shall aan Waters, then the British mili-
flag.
tary attache, and was played main-sallor; and there are numbers of bring her to the Thames and to this ly by Russian officers and British British boys like him scattered! diplomatista.
through the Finnish grain fleet,
Almost every other seafaring
In the old British Embassy in learning their seamanship under nation (and some that may scarce-
from
foreign flag. Almost every ship
it.
St. Petersburg there used to hang
ly be reckoned within that cate- a photograph of the first Russian in the grain fleet this year had at
gory) insists that every bay who least one British boy on board. unity. The period of Parliamen-match against a foreign team-in
wishes to become a merchant ser- I had often thought that some-vice officer must serve tary constitutionalism that fol-this case German one
at least about thing should be done lowed the great Risorgimento Hamburg.
some time in a square-rigged sail. Others had thought the same thing. It is generally acknowledged that Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1984. Was a disappointment, for elec-
team now and then. There were tion campaign and voting for
com- there is no better character-build- local candidates has a great ten-leader, who now lives near Tun-Parliament; there was an impres-whether he be destined for a pet
were Prince Bieloselski, a cavalrymittees; there were debates in ing experience for any boy dency to emphasise sectional loyalties; and the feeling of unit-bridge Wells, and Sir Ronald, Lind-sion, once, that even the Admiralty career or not-than a long voyage ed loyalty had not yet had time say, then a young attache of 22 in was interested. But nothing real- under sail.
Included in the Russian
The Policy Of Italy Distant observers like our-to become instinctive. Participa-his first foreign post. selves must be content to admittion in the Great War brought a Piedmontese, Venetians, Tuscans, frankly that we are not in position to know all the moves Romans, and Neapolitans into
Your Daily Smile!
ly was ever done.
Recently, a big Brazilian sall- British boys still bought appren-training-ship, built in this country. ticeships in foreign vessels, or
left for Brazil under anil. Lost went before the mast, or stowed
year another was built here for the
and motives of the diplomacy of the same ranks, fighting to- Pity the pour congressmen, who had away. And many went in steamers, Belgians,
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No. Fuss
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Mr. Nurich: "Oh, don't make any
Windjammer Training
the Great Powers; but distance gether for, the same cause. The to adjourn out of the atmosphere of or stayed at home. It is a curious has also its own advantages in big war has much evil to its ac-billions and go back home to folk who fact that many boys who might go enabling one to discount the count; but as far as Italy is will speak respectfully of dollars. to sea in sail do not care to go in
Istcam. We often had, in the Parma! Greece, Norway, Spain, Japan, exaggerations to which collec- concerned it had this good" re-dimes, and nickels! tors of news who are on the spot sult, that it was no longer toler-
and in other vessels, boys who had Italy, Sweden, Germany Jugoslavia, are unavoidably and quite justi-able that any party or section
been sent by their parents for a Peru--all these have their sail fiably prone. Every country should put itself above the Artist: "Shall I paint you in a frock year or two under sail to benefit by training-ships, and find good use has its own permanent interests, claims of Italy. Union had be-coat?"
the splendid character-building for them. Japan has five. which may be taken as the best come instinctive; and Signor fuss--just wear your smock."
Almost as soon as the news was qualities of such experience; hays guide to its policy; but is also Mussolini embodied in his own
who were going to be naval arch-mude known that at last here was If his liable to sudden gusts of feel-person the new impulse.
An Austrian has invented a piano tects and airmen, and even (in the to be a square-rigged ship under ing which appear to be regard- first proof of newly realised which only the pianist can hear. There Herzogio Cecilie once) one who the British flag I began to be snow- less of calculation. These im-strength was the somewhat hasty should be no difficulty in allocating the was to be a musician.. pulses are not, however, without ultimatum to Greece, and the ex- Nobel Peace Prize this year. their roots in history or in the action of a heavy indemnity; and national character as revealed in his second to quarrel with his the acts and policies of its states-neighbour on the other side, men; in fact the extraordinary France, these proclamations of her age?"
asser-
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jed under with applications to Ball
A British boy who was appren--from girls. From boys, too, the
tice in the four-mastered barque letters came; and from clergymen, Pommern a year or two ago is now retired naval captains, old mer- "Isn't it remarkable how Alica keeps ordained in the Church of Eng-chant service officers and also young ones, wishing to gain a year "Yes, he hasn't changed it for 10 land.
s spring
in sail to qualify for some pilot's Youth Keen To Sail
past; from school-teachers and Each time we came into Fal-from insurance clerks; from medi- cal men-from Australia, from mouth Bay there were, on the aver age, anything from 50 to 100 let- Now Zealand, from America, Italy,
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thing in taking a glimpse of aItaly having again found her- ¡years.' historical period, from an aero-self were recognised as plane as it were, is the continuity tions of the new national con- Facts You Did Not Know of the landscape. Historical tra-sciousness and assurance. When ditions are responsible for some- the quarrel with France, was thing that calculations of inter- bitter M. Briand remarked. "this A new mud flap can be attached to
Spain, ters waiting for me from British est cannot indicate; for what is merely a family dispute." an automobile fender with clamp without using tools. doctors call "predispositions," The most significant point about
boys who wanted to go to sea in' and it is at times of confusion the new cordiality between the The handle of an English inventor's sail. There was little to be done like the present that these under-two countries is that it indicates cane contains a small flashlight for about it; we had few vacancies. currents are apt to show them-that in the Dictator's judgment illuminating keyholes.
But recently in Denmark I bought POLICE SUPERVISION selves. One of these under-the force of Italian nationalism
a lovely little full-rigged ship, and currents is the natural sympathy is now strong enough to resist between the countries that owed even the strongest cultural at-1,000,000 electric clocks are in use in in her I plan to take a gun-room
of the right young fellows on their civilisation, and the basis tractions, and that it is now safe
Elizabethan of their language, to Rome, to be friendly with the country The Philippine Islands expect to ex-the world. often called the Latin countries-to which Italy owes most.. port more than 1,000,000 tons of sugar
Somewhere at the back of in the present season. as opposed to the people of Ger- manic race of the northern parts Italian consciousness is always! the undying tradition of old
of Europe.
A hundred years ago Italy Rome. Never has any Italian
was just beginning to feel itself Government subsidised excava-
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the United States.
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REFUSED
circumnavigation of Dinghy Thief Given Gaol
Sentence
I had gone to Denmark to get. hold of an old oak schooner, if I Three charges were preferred could to said away in and to stay against Ho Sheung-chi,. away. The monotonous daily round employed, who was brought be of worrying news had become try-fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the
un.
a nation, and to pass out of the tion and protection of the an- Among the passengers who ar-mg: if one could, why not escape? Central Magistracy this morn era when Napoleon could say that clent remains so generously as rived in the Colony on the Taiyo What can one do about all the ing. "Italy is a geographical expres- Mussolini; and the draining of Maru from Shanghai and Japan crises and the troubles parading
Napoleon himself owed the Campagna takes history a were Mr. Lehon Farley, from Yoko-almost hourly in an anxious Press? theft of a dinghy from Wan
sion."
to a mere chance his right to thousand years back at one hamn, Mr. Carl H. Kanter, from Nothing: Just nothing..
But at sea there are no claim French citizenship and ad-jump. The ending of the quarrel Kobe, Mr. E. S. Dunlop, from Naga- mission to the French army; and between the Vatican and Quirinal anki, and Miss Helen M. Bradley, save those of the weather's his carcer is still in sentiment completed the formal unity of from Shanghal. claimed as un Italian triumph; the national front. Versailles re-
the fact that he gained his vic-stored practically all the undis-
The forthcoming wedding is an-
Accused was charged with the
Wah-mui, a married woman, at crises Shaukiwan, with receiving the and stolen property, and with falling one's own making; there the
sun to report to police when under shines sand the wind blows and the police supervision. acts of the politicians, pompous After sentences, totalling nine
tories mostly with French sol-puted ferritory of Italia Irreden- Mra, H. D. Remedios, Mrs. C.jand bellicose, have no significance months' hard labour, were impos- diers being ignored. His failure at Paramountcy in the Adria-Remedios, Mrs. A. Pinna and Miss The sea; I thought, is a mighty ed, defendant asked for further police supervision, but was re- to use the great opportunity he and the security of Tripoli M Pinni, were passengers who refine place. gained to establish a free and are secure so long as France is turned to the Colony to-day from It is. But there were no old oak fused. The charge of receiving united Italy is one of the proofs friendly. The independence of Yokohama on the s.8. Taiyo Maru. schooners. Somebody else had was withdrawn against him. of the megalomania that grew on Austria is a common interest.
bought them all, and sailed away him in his later years; but it la Big fleets and big armies are
In them, or they had been broken also a proof that the dividing very costly, and if security can line between French and Italian be had without them, unneces-nounced of Mr. Arthur Montagup or lost, or converted to auxiliar citizenship had not yet been sary. With so many motives for Preston, solicitor, of No. 7A, Riveries. I wandered disconsolately by the Copenhagen waterfront and clearly drawn.
Baw there a full-rigged ship, lying] The work of a good understanding lying: on Court Apartments, 753 Yu Yuen freeing the Italians from Aus- the surface there is no need to Road, Shanghai, to Miss Margaret trian overlordship was taken up look for secret ambitions and Bessie Moore, also of Hiver Court by his nephew, who also felt the plans. It seems strange that It Apartments, Shanghai. pull of the double loyalty; but he should have been so long delayed.
never gathered the full harvest
of Solferino, and it was left to
Cavour and Garibaldi and Mazzini
The forthcoming wedding is an nounced to Julian Eranuela, musi-
IN WIRELESS TOUCH WITH HONG KONG
at the achorage-a little school- The following ships are expected ship for the Danish Government, to be in wireless communication carrying 80 boys training for the with Hong Kong to-day: Tanker Danish marine,
Maridal, Polchin, City of Norwich, Kaituna, Hydrangea, Kohso Maru, mois, Chunghaing, President
Saved From The Breakers"
to bring the famous Frincipali- The meeting of the Rotary Club clan, of No. 49 Fook Wa Street, I looked at her admirringly, Pierce, Hozan Maru, Chungking, tles into one framework with at to-day was a closed meeting Shamshulpo, to Miss Fong Fung, of What a ship! A lovely frigate, Taiyo Maru, Sirdbaas, Helikon, least a common aspiration after for the discussion of Club nuaire 51 Foo Wa Street, Shamshulpo. with long jibboom and high, taper Kalgan, Kongning and Taming