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BREMEN,
SHIP-AND-TRAIN DASH TO U.S:
The Daily Express recently dis- closed that, partly through the per- fection of a British cagineering in- vention, the blue ribond of the Atlantic may, he re-won from Ger.
EGYPT'S GOLD.
HE LOCKED IT IN THE HOLDS.
RED ACTIVITIES INCREASING.
COMMUNIST FLAGS LINE YANGTSZE BANKS.
STEAMERS RUN THE GAUNTLET.
Probably the last man to sco stowed away in the kolds of the P. O, liner Egypt the treasure which sank with the ship off Ushant in 1022 described to a eve Chronicle reporter the leading operations at Tilbury and his thrill. sent to suppress the activities of Communists on the Yangtsze, a car, ing escape from the wreck.
respondent of the North, China.
He is Mr. J. M. Heary, of Rom
many within a few months.
The new greyhound challenger of borough Way, Lewisham, S.E.13,
and he was quartermaster of the ship.
the Bremen and Europa time re- cords is the Canadian Pacifc Em-
The bullion, now lying in the press of Britain, the largest British-wood-covered walk which has just
built liner afoat, which was launch
With regard to the recent report that Chinese gunboats have been
Daily News points out that there are 10 Chinese gunboats on the rivar, five at Nanking, one at Kiu. kiang, two or possibly three at Hankow, one at Shasi, and one at Ichang. So far as is known, nene
ed last June by the Prince of Wales. beon located by divers, arrived at of these gunboats has moved from Tilbury, Mr. Henry said, under a her moorings, although it is report. strong police guard late at nighted that 19 miles below Yochow en Thursday, May 20, 1922, just Chinese gunboat did deliberately before the ship soiled.
She is now being fitted in the Clyde preparatory to her maiden voyage next spring, but a certain change in the original plans for her construction will enable the C.P.R.
"We wore loading the treasure
fire on Communists.
to deposit passengers in New York all that night and until early the river generally, the correspondent
hours before any other liner,
next morning, with the police watching.
Where It Was Placed. "It was put into numbers five and six holds and I padlocked them. Afterwards, the exporters put their seal on, the P&O. Company at tached theirs, and the polite fixed
Although her speed was at first to be limited to a little more than twenty-four knots, the-ating of a new type of water-tube boiler will bring the speed of the Empress of Britain within racing distance of the 27.0 knots with whith the Ger- man liner Europa captured the Ata third scal. lantic record from the Mauretania.
In regard to the position on the
goes on to point out that outside Haskow, from Maris 28A to BA up the river all beacons have been re- moved, and red flags are flaunted on both sides of the river.
For 80 miles along the river bank there are notices of various Com- munist slogans, such as "Kill the foreigners," "Loot houses and "The keys were handed to the banks," Join the Communists," officer of the watch, and, with the ete manifest, were handed to the cap. tain, who probably put them in his safe.
270 Hits On One Trip,
This, however, is but one part of the scheme of her owners to make the Empress of Britain the Empress
At Sanchaiwan, 40 miles above of the Atlantic as well. Although
Yochow, which is the first big city it is 3,001 sea miles from Southamp-
"I see that the divers have now above Hankow, on the left bank of ton to New Yorka distance cover reached the captain's safe. They the river, a ship was fired at by ed by the Europa in four days are likely to find much that will rifles and guns on her way up, and seventeen hours-it is only 2,70s help them there because, in addisho had the same unpleasant ex- miles to Quebec, which a twenty-tion to the keys and the manifest, perience on her return, seven-knot liner could do in a little the captain's safe will hold the plan of the cargo. This will simplify over four days.
salving a lot,"
A boat express at Quebec would then carry on the race, and New York would be reached in about
fourteen hours.
Describing his escape, Mr. Henry said: "I was of the wheel during the dog-watch, and we had passed Ushant in thick fog, when the French boat Seine crashed into us. he had iechreaker's bows, and cut us almost in bali.
"I went into the water with life-belt, bat two minutes Inter the
At Hosuch, 23 miles halow Shasi, about three months ago, again an the left bank of the river, a ship. was fired upon for 27 minutes, rifle and machine gun in action, and 270 hits were
counted on her bull.
This activity has in no way been diminished, and ships proceeding up the river or down are subjected to what can without exaggeration be called a running gauntlet of fire.
A New Danger Spot,
There are no boat connections at the New York docks, and the Em- pross of Britain in already assured of the time record" for all points west of Buffalo—which practically means all the largest cities in the western part of the Continent, in-boat sank and I was drawn under
At Pingtseh the Communists are cluding Chicago and San Francisco, with her. I remember going down
encamped on the hill top overlook- The water-tube boilers which are twice, and I distinctly remember,ing the river, with flags flying, and being fitted have already supplant too, that every episode in my life they keep up a regular volley of ed older types in the large Cana. From childhood came up before me. rifle, fire at the passing ships. This place is just near Little Orphan dian Pacific liners, effecting as
"I was unconscious when picked Rock. This is a new danger spot, up by one of our own life-boats. much twenty-five per
and indicates that the Communists. cent. economy, but this is the frst at- There was a panic on board so far from retreating, are actually intensifying their attention to the tempt to divert the superior em. when the Egypt sank" Mr. Henry river, ciency of this all-British invention said. "It was caused by the Las- to speed.
cars and affected the women and children. We had to threaten the Lascars with axes to get them out of the boats."
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WOMAN'S 50 YEARS OF
RUNNING,
HOUNDS FOLLOWED ON FOOT
IN ALL WEATHERS.
The message concludes that the idea apparently current in Shang. hai that the Communist menace has decreased should be dissipated by this plain statement of the normal expériences of any river steamer.
The impression amongst seaturing men, largely owing to reports from our Navy, are that conditions this £10,000 A YEAR TO LEAVE winter will not improve, on the con-
trary will be considerably worse.
THE BAR.
LEVERS OFFER TO A BARRISTER M.P.
The remarkable feat of having followed the hounds on foot for half a century is claimed by Miss
Mr. Clement Davies, R.C., M.P. Annir Wild, A member of n prominent Leicestershire farming offered a ealary of £10,000 a year, for Montgomeryshire, has been family, who lives at Kinoulton, with substantial provisions of an- little village not far from the other nature, if he will leave the borders of the Quorn, Belvoir, andar and join the board of direc- tora of Lever Brothers, Ltd., for whom he has often, appeared as counsel. He might also be called upon to, retire from Parliament; but not until the next General Election
South Notts Hunts.
She has followed the Quorn ever. since she was seven years of age, more than fifty years ago, and she is still going strong,"
Miss Wild stated that she started hunting when barely more than a toddler, and for about thirty years | she accompanied her father, who
"I am thinking it over," said died at the age of eighty-seven, Mr. Davies to a reporter. "I should after bunting seventy years with the Quora.
have to quit the Bar, and that She recalls experiences with such would be a big wrench, as it has famous Quorn members as Sir been the field of my life's struggles Richard Sutton, who hunted the from the bottom rung of the lad pack nine sonsons; Mr. Coupland,
who established the Quorn Hunt der. If I decids to accept the offor, Puppy Show, and who ruled four-it will not mean a by-election, as teen seasons; and Lord Lonsdale five seasons. M
No Obstacle.
should not have to consider my Parliamentary future until the bext General Election,"
:
"No obstacle, be it hedge, ditch, Mr. Davies has risen to his pre- dyke, or fence, has ever proved too sent position from an elementary inuch for me," said Miss Wild, who added, "
I have never allowed the school at the little Walsh town of weather, however, bad it was to anfyllia, where he is known interfere with the day's sport. Many times I have returned home familiarly to everyone as "Clem." wrt through and with aching limba. He won scholarships to graduate "I was once told by Lord Lons at Cambridge, and took silk soon dale that as a foothunter I was after attaining his fortieth birth- second to none in Leicestershire.”. day. He drafted the Liberal Miss Wild let me into a secrot amendments to the Coal Mines Bill, when she showed me a small brandy and had an open rift with Mr. dask which she carries in an inside Lloyd George, of whom he had been.
with a wink “is in case of emer-talled off the Liberal attack on that geney
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