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July 17, 1914,
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July 17, 1913,
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17. 1914.
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
SMITH DISQUALIFIED,
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BULGARIAN LOAN.
VEHEMENTLY DENOUNCED.
* HOPES FOR THE BETTER.
London. Received July 17. Reuter'a correspondent
FURTHER RESULTS.
CONDENSED.
Latest results at Bieley aro · given to-day. London. Received July 17,
President Buesto has quietly At Bisley, the Ashburton and speedily retired. at
The steamer Mendoza, recently Constantinople states that in the Shield (seven shots at 200 and said he hoped that the Army,
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Loaden. Received July 17. London. Received July, 17. London. Recelved July 17.
Reuter's correspondent at Sofia There was an attendance oft The Strike Executive Reuter's correspondent Mexico Oity says
President decided to withdraw the engia-13,000 at Olympia to witness states that the Sobranje has dis- Huerta's speedy and quiet nature.
Congress accepted the resigna tion by 121 votes to 17, and Benbor Carbajal then took the the bath and proceeded to Palace, where he received an ovation.
retirement was of peers from every ship affected by the fight between Georges Carpen- easɛed the 5 Per Cent. Loan of Chamber, the Minister of War 500 varde) was won by Sedbergh [reported ashore, has been aban-
the dispute reported on June 17 tier and "Gunboat": Smith" for £20,000,000 which a German though emailer; would be able to with a score of 496.
[The following telegram was the Heavyweight White Cham-syndicate has secured at a price efface the black days of "the" past
The ex-President read a fare: wall message to Congress and then entrained for Puerto Mexico, to which place H.M.S. Bristol and the German eruiser Dresden sailed bastily from Vera Cruz.
A special committee has left for Celaya to orange for the Constitutionals' peaceful entry into the capital. »
Renter's Washington oor.
received on June 17-A general strike of marine engineers on tramp steamore began at English de- ports yesterday, the mon manding an increase in wages. They ask for an increase of 40/- per month for senior and 30/- per month for junior engineers. It is foured that the strike will develop into a complete stoppage of all cargo shipping, and it is expected that 700 ships will be laid up to-day involving cessation of work in the Welsh and other coalfields.]
pionship of the World.
Smith was diequalified in the sixth round on a foul,
of 84, with industrial concessions, afior laborioue negotiations.
The debate was uproarious. The Opposition and the Socialists Except in the first round, vehemently opposed the Loan se Carpentier had the best of the dishonourable and fatal to the fighting. In the fourth round country, whose resources were be floored his opponent with a being aquandered without any vicious right, Smith being down return. for nine seconde.
They declared that the signa- tare of the contract was a crime! against Bulgaria's dignity and
Carpentier further punished his man in the fifth round, while credit.
The President finally declared in the sixth, he just failed to reach Smith, overbalanced and the Bill passed, and closed the fell to his knees. Smith rushed silting. in and delivered a terrific blow
neck, and Carpentier roso with difficulty and had to be assisted to his corner.
respondent says the resignation EMPLOYMENT OF TROOPS on the back of his opponent's
is the first practical stop to a quick solution of the trouble in Mexico, and may pave the way Goneral the entry of
for
Carranza.
American Policy.
London. Received July 17.
COMMITTEE TO REPORT.
London. Received July 17. Mr. Illingworth is to move in the House of Commone for the appointmont" of a Select Com- Router'ä" Washington cor-mittee to report on the circum- respondent states that President stances under which troops may Wilson continues his watchful, be employed in civil disturbances
Be belieres or threatened disturbances. waiting policy. that other nations will decline to recognise the Carbajal or any other Government until the United States' attitude has been indicated.
HOME NEWS,
Chained to a City Statue.
"Your conduct is so extraordi- nary that I shall remand you for a wook for the report of the pri
Bon doctor as to your state of mind."
With this remark Sir Thomas Crosby-who is himself a medical man-to-day at the Mansion House checked the cutbursts of Isabella Alexander, a well-dressed woman of 42, who was charged with disorderly conduct by chain. ing herself to the Wellington statue, outside the Royal Ex- change, on June 17.
་
A BYE-ELECTION.
UNOPPOSED RETURN.
.London. Receivod July 17.
Smith war vigorously by the crowd.
boood
CHINESE & DUTCH.
APPEAL TO PEKING.
London. Received July 16. Reuter's correspondent
at
Batavia says the Chinese have Mr. Leverton Harris (Unionist) appealed to Peking by telegraph
berlain.
fire raged furiously, and exciting. scopes were witnessed.
Two ships which were lying at the quayside caught fire, and had to be towed out into the river, though both were burned to the water's edge.
Gun Running in Ireland.
Dorchester House.
health, passed away very sudden. ly from heart failure.
He was educated at Harrow,
The Government has applied to the Chamber for a credit of £5,000,000 for military arma-
ments.
THE MENDOZA.
STEAMER ABANDONED.
བཡ་ཡི་
London. Recolved July 17. The steamer Mendoza, which went ashore near Punta Mogotes on the 11th inst., has been nbandoned.
Correct Grips.
[doned:
5 Mr. Leverton Harris (Unionist) bue been returned unopposed for East Worcester,
The Spencer Cup (seven shots at 500 yards) was won by Baker,
The Turkish Government has of Sherborne.
Australia won the Mackinnon asked the Chamber for a credit Cap (10 shots at 800, 900 and of five millions sterling for
military arimamekata. 1,000 yards) with a score of
The strike executive haa decided to withdraw the engin [Last year Rapton won the eers from every ship affected in Ashburton Shield with a score of the tramp steamer dispute. 504, while R.G. Sillars wen the
A Select Committee is to Spencer Cup.
1,531.
Last year Australia won the report on oiroumstances under Mackinnon Cup, Scotland being which troops may be employed
in civil disturbances. second and England third,]
The grip is the same, or rather the manner of holding the racket
The Bulgarian Parliament has paced a Loan of £20,000,000 from a German Syndicate, after vehement opposition.
[
The simplest grip for the fore-is the same, but the action le Chinese in Batavia have tele- and joined the artillery branch hand stroke can be obtained as absolutely different. For ground graphed to Peking seking mea- of the Canadian Military Ser- follows-Hold the racket straight strokes the wristshould be flexible
vice, graduating with honours in out with its face perpendicular, and loose, and the ruokat allowed aures to be taken to prevent shoot- President Wilson does not. the artillery COUTED. When and then grasp it so that the "V" to swing freely both before and ing of gamblers.. Strathcons's Horee was raised at between the thumb and firat finger after the actual stroke. For volley
LADIES' TENNIS.
NEWS
The annual meeting of the V.
3.
cancelled
the time of the South African comes on the left or front edge of ing the wrist should be tense, believe that other nations will War he was appointed to it, and the straight piece down the side the racket gripped more tightly, recoguiar the Carbajal or any Close the fingers the lower part of the back of the other Government till America's
as it attitude is indicated. pressed down served through the campaign, of the bandle. receiving the medal, with three round the handle naturally, slant hand
In the Heavyweight White olasps, and being mentioned in ing slightly upwards, and the were on the handle, with an action
little finger will be half or three that causes the head of the rocket Championship of the World, dispatches.
In 1902 he accompanied the quarters of an inch above the to tilt in the air. Then, except "Gunboat" Smith was disquals Canadian Coronation contingent leather at the end. With this grip for overhead smashes," there fied on a foul when fighting Car- to England as their adjutant.it is possible and easy-to serve should be practically no back pantier. President Wilson has informed
Three years ago, when the overhead or underhand, end to swing, and not very much follow- if ho General Carranza that
Province of Quebec' decided to take any forehand stroke with the through. The racket is almost arrives at an agreement with
open an office in London, Major ball at any height, whether still-held tight and stiff in the Benbor Carbajal for a transfer of power, the resulting Administra has been returned unopposed for asking that effectual measures be Benyon was appointed Assistant volleyed or off the ground. For right place and at the correct
He changed. The band should be The wrist, in good volleying, ie “Our Contemporaries" appears tion will be recognised in East Worcester, the seat formerly taken to prevent the shooting of Agant-General, and had noted in the backhand the grip must be angle for the stroke required. R. C. in reported in this issue. accordance with the terme of occupied by Mr. Austen Cham-gamblers, and the invasion of the that capacity ever since.
colony by the Dutch police.
was connected by marriage with turned to the left until the whole turned alightly as the shot is
on page 9. the Niagara Protocol,
the Old French-Canadian families of the back of it ia showing flat on played, but there is no "swing."on page 2, and commercial news General news and an article of Quebec, and through his that straight side-piece where the
The thumb Learning to volley and to make mother with the well-known"V" was before." Sir George Holford, who is ro- shipping lamily of Allan, who should be placed straight up the different strokes will help greatly dealing with graft in America
front of the racket, as it gives to counteract the fright and will be found on page.
Antoine Fournier gave a splen added power and control, apathy that I have mentioned be. tiring from the 1st Life Gaarde control the Allan Line.
The correct positions of the lest fore. These two apparently con- did exhibition of strength at the after more than thirty yearS'.
are too well-known to need re-tradiatory characteristice seem to Victoria Theatre last night. Army service, has on more than
capitulation here. I have laid occupy too much space in the
The report of the Board of one occasion been of service to the Royal Family se owner of
stress on these particular gripe average lady tennis-player's brain. By two o'clock the quay walls Dorchester House. It was in
only because I consider them the say, apparently contradictory Directors of the Shanghai Dock for a distat ce of 400 yards and that palatial mansion in Park-
easiest ones with which to produce because in reality they are firm and Engineering Co., Ltd. ap- all kinds of strokes in good stylo. allies, working towards the same pours in to-day's issue.
and The Dodwell steamer St. Pat the new sheds had collapsed, and, lane that the Shahzadah—a son
end of mental laziness. during bis housed
semi- How to Acquire Correct Style.
Variety of Stroke.
futility. Most women are so riok is on the way to Hongkong together with several cranes, of Ameer Abdur Rahman-was
The phrase "all kinds of dreadfully afraid of losing a with her bows store in, having fallen into the dook.
The damage is estimated at diplomatic mission to England a
I am often asked why ladies strokes" might, I think, be re- point, or of losing a practice been in collision.
The Bandmand Opera Com £130,000, £80,000 of which is to good many years ago. According buildings and property, the re-to all accounts, the tenancy play
ed sad havoc both with the find it hard to improve at lawn peated with emphasis, because match perhaps through trying a mainder being to cargoes.
Two bundred barrels of seal oil structure and furniture of Dor- tennis, and I think usually it is lack of variety is the chief fault new stroke or two-and this leade
chester House. What a contrast because they do not know how to in ladies' tennis of to day. There to the apathetic way in which pany's performance of The were thrown into the dock.
to another and later tenancy that make their strokes properly. The must be thousands of women they go on with their one stroko Marriage Market" is of the decorous Mr. Whitelaw most important thing in tennis playing tennis who possess really and their same ideas year after owing to delay in the arrival of on June 17, an Exchange Tele Reid, who occupied it while he for a beginner, or indeed for any only one stroke the forehand year, instead of learning various graph correspondent says in- was American Ambassador. He lady player, is correct style. drive across the court. Just think strokes and trying the effect of a
or proved and their pleasure enhan-
Ia conclusion, and by formation has reached the police was, needless to say, a man of Certainly, good style is to be how their game would be im change of tactics. authorities that large quantities great private wealth. Otherwise desired in everyone, man coast for the National Volunteers. Col. Holford, which, according to ly more fitted to play strokes with this is a self-imposed limit, in- ebould like to quote the words of "Never forget that tennis is According to latest accounts,
Mysterious vessels have been good authority, was fally twenty-mere force if he so desires. Aga ourred simply by lack of trying. a famous authority on the game. says the Globa, the united efforts
sighted off the coast for five per cent. more than his general rale, women have not the They like their own stroke and
but the modest salary as Ambassador muscular strength of arm or wrist they are perfectly content to played 10 per cent, with the of the fire brigades have not
for any unnatural setion, and the have a useless backhand, or to racket, 40 per cent. with the feet and 50. cont. with the head." the past week, succeeded in suppressing it, and
were "unable Globe,
best weapons at their command say, "Oh, I can't volley."
Very often, I admit, they can-Mrs. Larcombe in the Globe. ships in port are burning with coastguards.
to get any answer to their siguals. little hope of salving.
Torpado-boats have been ordered At a meeting of the Alien are swing, timing, and touch. It is stated that the fire was to patrol the coast. It is stated Immigration Board on June 16, of Thus their aim should be to obtain net volley or play a backhand in occasioned by a man emptying some hot ashes into the water, that the rifles are of the latest fourteen applicants for permission the maximum of effect with the the way they attempt to do so
American Army pattern. either to Bottle or pass over minimum of effort, and if the it is a physical impossibility. some of which fell on the wood.
New Radical Peers, to America, only eight passed the strokes are played in the correct But they give it up at once, with way, very little effort is really out trying other methods, or at- work of a veseel, which then
"This Go:ernment's lease of necessary examination. became ignited.
One of the lucky ones, who required. Unnatural actions lead tempting to find out the cor spread to oreosote barrels close life is drawing to an end," says
Mr. T. P...O'Connor, M.Phag by, and in a brief space of time the Citizen-the official organ of came from Russia, claimed to be not only to the worst results as rect way. It is a recognised fact
but the number of good volleyors severed his connection with TP.'s to health and physique. the vessel and shede wore a mass the Labour Party and there" play-actor," and said that he far as tennis is concerned, but that ladies are beginning to of flames, which raged with great will not be many more opportun- was also a compositor. He was also to damage instead of benefits realise the necessity for volleying,
ities for making fresh members vouched for by a cousin who car-
The foundation of a good style is still far too small. Playing at Weekly and is about to start a forosity.
ries on business ara førrier, and
is a correct grip, and this should the net adds so much to one's now weekly paper, which will be Seven ships, including two of the House of Lords.
"Some rich Liberal members work was promised him in a
be one that is comfortable to the pleasure and interest in the another reincarnation of "T; P." lighters, were in dock, and four
are becoming frightened that tailor'ashop.
player, and one from which it is game that if a few hints on how It will be started in October, became involved,
Ono oaptein had to dive into they will be left out in the cold the water, and was picked up by when the time comes for the Minis- Death of Major. J. A. Benyon, easy to play the ball at practical to volley will help any woman The Globe, under the title of Lifeboat, which afterwards try to resign, Five of them, at any Major J. A. Benyon, Assistant ly any height. The "Colonial" ont of the stagnation of the bass-Business Newspapers, Limited, oaught fire, but the flames were rate, will be satisfied within the Agent-General in London for the grip is greatly at fault in this line, I shall feel that this article has been registered at Somerset oxtinguished. The conflagration next week or so. I am told definitely Province of Quebec, died on June latter respect, as some strokes has not been written in vain. spread remarkably, and some that one Liberal M.P. will begiven 6 at his residence in Ennismore become absolutely impossible dwelling houses in the vicinity his peerage almost entirely on gardens, 8.W., in his 45th year. when the racket is held in this account of the fact that he is the Major Benyon, who was out of way. also produces a- very were imperilled, kr
The whole dock shed, mearur possessor of a safe seat which is doors the day, before, and then ap- awkward and ungraceful action,
peared to be in his usual state of not at all suitable for women. ing 100ft, soon collapsed. The required for Mr. Masterman.
Glasgow Docks Ablaze.
The most disastrous fire in the history of Glasgow wrought havoc among the shipping in that port, on Inne 18, Warehouses and dwellings were threatened.
The fiames
Telegraphing from Tullemore
of rifles and ammunition have it would have been impossible for woman, but a man is so much ced if they possessed all the
the s.s. Assaye.
Revenue Officer Langley was fined $20 to-day and had his Coxswain's certificate suspended
I observe the rule of the rond.
been landed on the Connemara him to pay the rent demanded by stronger that he is corresponding-other strokes! And as a rule "rubbing in" my lecture of for three months for failing to
Allen of Many Parts.
How to Volley
per
Changes in Journalism.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m.- Victoria Thestre 9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW."
Bijou Theatre 0.15 p.m... Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Third Gymkhana Meeting, Sale of portion of tailor's stock
in trade-G.P. Lammert's Sales Room6-11 8.m.
Wednesday July 23, Meeting of Metal Importers at Secretary's Office, H.K. Chamber of Commerce.
Thursday July 23: General Meeting, Assovinoso
Monday, July 27, Meoting I.K. Central Estates
Portuguesa de Soccorros Mutuos.
Ltd.-noon, zy
House with a capital of £40,050 in 40,000 one-pound shares and 1,000 ahilling shares. The usmes First of all, the methods of of the proprietors are uni yot volleying are totally dissimilar, acquired by Mr. de Wend-Fenton. Lodge. bass-line strokes, and those of disclosed. The World has boon
Tuesday July 28. Lady May at home." Mountain