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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS," THURSDAY, MARCH 4TH, 1926
A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE. LADY ATTACKED. IN INDIA BY
WOUNDED TIGER.
The following is an account sent by Mr. E A. Smythies, of the Forest Department, United Provinces, and published in the Times of Ceylon of February 8th, of what must have heen one of the most exciting abd most un pleasant adventures in the history of big-game shooting in India. Mrs. Symthies in the niece of Mt. W. C. H: cluding a famous man-eater:
The last of the three matches arranged this week by the Hongkong Volunteer Defoner Corps was played yesterday Situate at VICTO in the Colony of Hava afternoon at Kowloon, where, after a very
xoxda and registered at, the Lând Office
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Club by the harrow margin of 8 rund!'
The, Volunteers have thus won two cut of the three matches played. They beat the Navy on Tuesday and were defeated Thy the Army on Monday,
Although the highest individual scores in the match were only 30 for the K.C.C., and 27 and 96 for the Volunteers, this was no reflection on the batting, which was quite good considering the two ext cellent bowling performances seen from each side. The batsmen were up against stiff opposition in Morris (K.C.C.) and Owen Hughes (Volunteers), each of whom, incidentally captured the same number of wickets, the former taking for nas
and the latter 7 for 24.
The Volunteers went in first and scored 100. Burgess and Lammert opened the innings and the sbore was 21 for the loss of one wicket when Burgess was caught by Fincher: Lammert was then joined by For further Particulars sad Conditions of Mackenzie, but the latter was bowled by Sale. Apply to
Lyal with the score at 51 for Mitchell MASSE, GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & CO., was caught by Fincher, the score then joined Lammert, who after knocking ap Mortgagees' Solicitors, St. George Building. Chater Road,'
reading 73 for 3.
Mitchell played a steady innings and
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from fourth man in, had the honour of being last man oat, being caught he Robinson after contributing a useful 26. Dated the 22nd day of February, 1926, 3218ed in a procession of fours and ducks
The partners of Mitcheli were dismiss due to the fine howling of Morris, who was responsible for taking the other seven wickets No fewer than four of the
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Volunteers had ducks,
Ramsay and Lyal opened for the K.C.C. and took the score to 93 for one wicket, Ramsay being caught by Owen Hughes, Lyal was caught by fitchell, when only sie runs had heen added, but the con- tributions of Jex, Fischer and Capt. Warters helped. All three were bowled by Owen Hughes, who took the remaining vickets also. Scores:-
F.V.D.C.
E. C. Burgess, o Fincher, b Lyal 16 G. P. Lammert. e Fincher, b
Morris
A. K. Mackenzie, b. Lyal
17
E. J. R. Mitchell, e Robinson, b
Ramsay
90.
H. Owen Hughes, c Fincher, b
Morris
4
F. E. Lawrence, b... b Morris
4
W. W. Mackenzie, b Morris
H. V. Parker, not out...
J. A. R. Plummer. b Morris G. R. Vallack, B. Morris
L. P. Ralph, b Morris
Lynl
Extras
Total
Fincher
Morris
Remeny
Bowling Analysis.
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C. M
K.
W.
11
ย 27
7 0 24
11
3
30 17
K.C.C.
W. Ramsay, e Owen Hughes, b Vállack
J. C. Egal, & Mitchell. b Parker
S. Jex, b Owen Hughes
7
16
10
E. F. Fincher, b Owen Hughes. 32 Capt. E. Harria, c Mitchell, b
Owen Hughes
Capt. R. Warters, b Owen-
Hughes
.
Capt. T. C. Bevis, h Owen
Hughes
C. H. L. Oxlade, e "Ralph," h
Owen Hughes
J. Robinson, e Laauert. b Owen
Hughes
C. T. Evans, c Rail, b Parker... S. P. Spillet, not pus
18
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0
12
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Total
Bowling Analysis.
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13.3 .3 47
2
8
18
10 3 94
7
Parker Vallack
Owen Hughes
LAWN TENNIS.
CHAMPIONSHIPS COMMENCE
TO-DAY.
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We were staying for Christmas in a good shooting block and one night we had a kilt by a tiger'in one of the best small heats in the area. So my wife and I went off to the heat, and fixed up two machana,, my own in front, and Sher's
TALES OF GOLD MINING.
SOVIET MORALS.
STORIES BY A WOMAN AMBASSADOR.
Wealth beyond dreams is again a lure to the minor! This time it is the Tanami goldfeld in the Northern Territory of Australia Cald indeed is there, bus
THREE GENERATIONS IN LOVE. there is no water, and the aborigines are hoatile. The writer crossed the auri ferous sands of Tanami's blistering
The Art Soviet lovestory has been desert with a camel team long ago, but written by the first woman ambassador there was no romance in the undertaking in Europe, says the Berlin correspondent then. It is at hand now, maybe, for of a London paper. That the happi- Tanami may become a second Coolness of two partners under the most gardia,
modern form of marriage should turn on a badly-cooked dinner, and collars which the wife forgot to send to the waah, is all the more illuminating to the rest of Europe from the fact of Madame Alexandra Kolleatay's unimpeachable ia- side knowledge,
Berlin), the Russian diplomatic repre InWays of Love" (Malik, Verlag. sentative at the court of Norway reveals herself as one of the literary talents of
Am
But gold mining is the biggest gamble in the world. It has been calculated that more gold has been put into the ground, in the hopes of obtaining sudden. affluence, than ever has come out. though the goddess is somewhat fickle, Still, fortune has her favourites, and, all gold-seekers fancy they are under her kindly smile. Probably the man who about 40 yards to the right and behind, found the Welcome Stranger angget thus avoiding the risk of ricochets. Heron the Ballarat goldfield thought at the the new Russia. In three long-short machan was in the first fork of a tall,
time that he was high "in favour, but stories she gives us the inside view of cylindrical tree, 13 feet from the ground rumour says he died in poverty Hannan, the Bolshevik household, and shows the the tree being to feat in girth. Just the discoverer of the Kalgoorlie gold achievements and disappointments of the in front of my machan was a patch of feld, was a lucky man, and so was ideally-minded of the new regime.. With- heavy markal grass about 35 yards in Bailey of Contgirdie fame and dozens out a superfluous word of comment or diameter, and there was a good deal of of others on the West Australian fields sympathy she insists that the eternal grass and undergrowth all round. Soon but thousands laboured hard on the same truths of human namre must be given after the beat started, I heard a stog
fields and used up all their resources for due consideration, and, that very littla clapping, and the tiger roared twice. little or no return in virgin gold. And has changed after all. She is not centi- About three minutes later, I heard it
it is the same on all the world's gold mental, but dreadfully pathetic and very coming through the narkal grass, and presently it broke cover at a fast, slouch.
fields.
much in oarnest. · But the romance is there notwithstand- The longest story in the book is named ly weapon was a HV 404 Jefferying. An illiterate Irishman who desert after its heroine, Wassilissa Maligyna," several tigers. magazine rifle, with which I bare killed fed his ship at Part Melbourne to join who was once a factory girl and now the magazine and chamber and some.
I had four cartridges in in the Ballarat and Bendigo rush bought manages a whole housing board.. more loose on the machan. As the tiger
a piece of land for five pounds at an I then a cock?" demands Wassilissa's broke. I fired and missed, and it rushed action sal while passing through the brilliant marriage comrade, who has been hack to the narkal. Presently the beat
marshy fats, which lay three miles in to America and wants the standard of land from bis ship. The city of Mel- Ford. piano, and motor-cycle; that. I the markal, and almost came up to
bourne sprang up around that vucunt am suppond to exist on the different simultaneously the tiger again broke cover, this time at full gallop with a
piece of land, and in time the Govern forme of mashed corn and cereula fetched terrific roar. I fired at it going away
ment built the present Fost Office upon from the communal kitchen?" This same it. Long afterwards the original owner Wladimir pains his Wasja, whom he on my left, and again missed. The of tife and came back he had made no loves so well, by refusing to get back beast went by ary wife's machan at the gallop about 30 yards from her, and as thing on the goldfields, but the hope of from party committers in time to sit at soon as it had passed her, she fred and there while Melbourne, was building, and guests
one day striking a nugget had kept him the head of a nicely-laid table where the hit it about six inches or so above the he had retained his receipt for the land elderly, philosophie cook, for her part, are already assembled, The heart and just below the spine. This he had. purchased. He made good his reffects that Bolshevik couples quarrel as stopped it, and it rolled over roaring title, and the Government paid him the soon as they are alone together, just in
Here the incredible part of the story begins. The tiger mad with rage turned
price of many nuggets. for his rights the way of the fine old families shot round, saw her in the machan, and made
It had to, or remove the Post Office, theserved before the 'revolation. for her climbing the tree for all the
finest building in Melbourne.
**GLSTERS." world like huge domestic cat with its forearms almost encircling it Up it went vertically under her machan, and as I turned round hurriedly I knocked- the lone, cartridges out of my machan to the ground. As things were, I had no option but to take the risk of hitting my wife. I fired at the brute when it was half way up the tree, but only grazed it As I looked down to work the bolt and reload. I realised I had one cartidge left, and looking up again I' saw my wife standing up in the machan with the muzzle of her rifle in the tiger's mouth-his teeth marks are 8 inches up folds of New Guinea were found by an could have taken that worn-out trio, the The sensational Yodda Valley gold-volutionary both in art and politics the barrel and he was holding on to the edge of the machan with his forepawather Irishman. He fell through some young-old mother, the unfolding bud "of
and chin. In this position, she pulled the trigger and had a misure. You
must realise that at least two-thirds of the tiger's weight was now on the machan, for except for his back claws, he was hanging out from the tree by
In more recent times the Klondyka
In Sisters" the young girl partner goldfields provided romance sufficient to of a Soviel marriage, in desparar satisfy meat men, and the precious metal her husband's neglect, mingles her tears was thawed from the ice-bound streams with those of the paid rival she discovers. in quantities enough to make some tire in her home girl as young as herself of its sight. But its purchasing power and better bred-whom misfortune has was correspondingly little, and more
driven to her profession. moncy was made by the men who kept put gold into the scales against dour in the girl Bolshevik as the outside world stores: The writer was one of those who Madame Kellentay gins the picture of In the third and best of the batch
brother-or reputed to be of Tim Healy. From the merely literary standpoint it Dawson City, the storekeeper being a
bas tried to imagine her and failed. heard! an Irishman of whom most people have is a brilliant piece of work. Only a-re-
creeping vegetation which overgrew a hidden creek, and lay helpless until found by one of his mates.
You've broken your leg, Mike," said his rescuer, a Scot well known to the writer.
#bl wish it had been me neck,'
..
daughter and the lover, and, by skil fully adding a grandmother, presented A quartet of the most absorbing interest. Here are Russian revolutionaries of three generations offered for inspectiqu. Marin, the grandmother, aristocrat and officer's wife is already modern enough in the loves another man and must go where ber heart and soul dictate. The daugh ter. Olga, twenty years later, confronted by the same problem, horrifies her by. can have all the gold that's raine by them: they make such different appeals!
Or don't believe you, Scotty, You loving in, her turn two men at the same time and being unable to decide between right of discovery for a bottle of whisky."
are done."
the width of the machan which was rock the response; "my gold hunting dave eighties to tell her husband that she ing violently from his efforts to get on to it. The next thing I saw was my wife lose her balance and topple over back- wards, on the side away from the tiger. THE LAST CARTRIDGE
the
The beast did not seem to notice her disappearance, and as I again aimed at him, I saw him still clawing and biting machan the timber" Was almost bitten through, and the strings torn to shreds. I fired my last available cart ridge, and by the mercy of Heaven the bullet went true. It took the tiger in the heart and he crashed over backwards on to the ground immediately below the mácha, where he lay hidden from view in the grass. I did not know at the time he was dead; nor of course did my wife. All I knew was that my wife had dia- appeared from the machan on one side of the tree and the tiger on the other, that I had no cartidges left; and that I was helpless for the moment to give any further assistance.
"You can't complain, anyhow. You're sitting on a nugget nas, and the sand around you is full of gold.?
But Scotty and the Irishman drank many bottles of whisky later, after taking eight dundred ounces of gold out of the creek bed. The scene of the Irish man's accident soon became the Mecca and for a long time some lucky men of all gold-seekers throughout the world, earned, by simple
WORK ABOVE EVERYTHING.
efficient as the is charming, collects her But the granddaughter, Genia, as mother's fater lover, Andrei, almost by carelessness, among the batch of men who interest her emotionally, and is honestly Genia analyses love in its purest form, aghast that Olge should object. For panning, as much and knows that she loves the local party as twenty ounces per day. The town of secretary more than any other man of Tamata, (named after Chalmers, the her acquaintance, and Lenin far more missionary) sprang into being, and to than the party secretary.. Her mother
day is still the resort of men who wish the loves best of all, and would not dream. to earn a sure return for their labours, of willingly causing her moment's pain. though they do not row get fifty ounces How could she guess that Olga should be. daily.
so small-minded as to feel like a bourgeois Golden Mount, the famous Queensland rating Olga for this lapse, this unlovely or of the old school in these matters! After gold mine, is one long romance. The
desire to possess somebody for herself
The story of Mount Morgan,
Whether my predicament was as bad as my wife's can be judged from her view of the incident. I quote her words-brothers Morgan found the gold first, alons, abs points out the lover's right to "When I fired again, he turned round but after doing so fade out of the lime-choose whom he pleases. But she hersel! and saw me, and immediately dashed light, and the members of a small com- will certainly not chose him again, but roaring towards my tree. I thought he
pany Bosted to work the hill of gold devote herself to more work and less was galloping past, but suddenly realis-
take their place. Those men met daily play. ed he was climbing up, and only just
in a little bairdresser's shop in Rock had time to stand up in the machan
Work above everything," is the hampton to discuss matters and gamble slogan of the girl Bolshevik at her best before his great striped face and paws
in shares. As day by day the reports of and most brilliant. It is only one appeared over the edge, and his blood the underground workings, became more gathers, due to the many weaklings and hot breath came up at me with his sensational the 21 shares moved up cor-among them that this motto does not roaring i pushed the barrel of my rifle respondingly to £18, and they were always hold good. into his mouth and pulled the trigger. bought and sold, then, only in the hair. but the rife would not go off. Then dresser's shop. One night, while re really did feel helpless and did not know ports of some developments from the what to do. We had a regular tusal mine were eagerly awaited, those shirt- with the rifle, and then I saw his paw sleeved directors got tired of ordinary come up through the bottom of the gambling by cards and invented a gain machan. In stepping back to avoid it.
in which the loser had to light the pipes I must have stepped over the edge of the
of the others, with bank-notes according machan, as I felt myself falling, I to his losses. It is said that nearly all in all the four villages of my parish, 1 thought I was falling into the jaws of lost in turn, and that, as the feeling of an certain I should and a majority the tiger, and it fashed through my contempt for wealth grew, cách vied with seriously professing belief in witchcraft.
nind, Surely I'm not going to be killed the other in recklessness of play-The Rev. Charles Kents ground at all, and the next thing. I
never felt bitting the But in the morning the news from the knew was that I was running through home to sleep off the effects of their. mine was disappointing, and all went grasa and over fallen trees, wondering night out. Then followed the romance when the tiger would jump on me."
The hairdresser's assistant, who came
Interest in the Annual Race Meeting has been so great that it has drawn all the tennis players away from the courts with the result that the Hongkong Cricket Club tournament, which includes both the Bingles and Doubles Champion- ships of the Colony, will virtually con mence today instead of the 1st inst, s like this I at first scheduled. The creeption is the Green-Gould watch which was played off some days ago in the Kowloon Cricket Club ground resulting, in a win for the former, who had little difficulty in secur ing the necessary three sets, the scares being 6-2, 6-3, and 6-1,
Three matches are down for decision to-day-
OPEN SINGLES, -M W.-Lo v. A. 8. Hett.
SINGLE HANDICAP.A."
Lt. H. C Gould (owe 1/0). W, B. Comaby (ser.),
8. E. Green (owe 16/3). A. Piercy |(real ‚15);/
NAVAL SPOETS.
taneously with the mahout, Bisharat Ali, man, and, after smoothing them out, She arrived at my tree almost simulburat notes, He was, a thoughtful young in early to clean up, found the pile of
less of wounded tigers or anything else, values euld be deciphered were prompt who had rushed up his elephant regard took them to the bank, Those whose and she hastily mounted and cleared off paid in gold. and the young man that into safety, unhurt except for a sprain day bought shares from the previous ed wrist, and various scratches and owners while shaving them. He after was calling out that he could see the RERT 31. MACDONALD in the Manchester braises from the fall. One of the stops wards became director himself-Ro machan. So when a supply of cartridges tiger, and it was lying dead under his
Guardian arrived. I went up cautiously and verified his statement, recovered my wife's bat and. rifle, and went off with It will be a long time before we try and to bring in the tiger, her to the bungalow leaving the stops get another 1 This is a plain usvarnish- ed account of an incident which must,
In connection with the Royal Naval Athletic Meeting, which was previously announced as taking place at Happy length, with three bullets in its one be shooting. At least. I have never heard It was a nice male 9 feet 3 inches in I think, je unique in the annals of tiger
Valley to-morrow afternoon, those intertwenn heart and spiat, ona cutting the of a lady being hurled out of high
ested should note that these sports are bottom of the chest, and one in the heart now being held at Bookunpoo Valley, and
not at the venue previously stated.
(Continued at foot of next Column:)
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