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That there will be cricket next At the Police Reserve Head- summer in Edinburgh is certain. quarters Club, last evening, three Not all the clube, however, will interesting boxing bouts took be able to resume. place between Able Seaman Connell
Able
In round figures a thousant Donaghey, Stoker Gale and pounds were divided between Chief Petty Officer Harris, and Everton and Liverpool over their Stoker Welsh and Stoker Neill, home-and-home holiday engage There was a large audience and ments.
had the arrangements
been ably attended to by Inspector
Wildin. Mr. H. J. Gedge acted as referee and Mr. A. B. Allan took the offea of time keeper.
Harry Renute is employal at torpedo factory at Gourock. He has been doing his bit daring the war, and a useful bit too.
Although the bouts were hard
Reece beat Stevenson recently fought, it cannot be said that any by 700 to 496 in the third of the special ability in the way of science was shown. It appeared series of short games between
that the contestants had old
grievances to settle and they made no bones about trying to gat punches home.
these STU "ock" billiard players. Stevenson had won the first two games.
The annual billiard handicap | In the first bout. A.B. Connell at Hawick Constitutional Club and A.B. Donaghey fought in as been won by Mr. Willian manner which called for frequeat Wood, with Mr. D. Graham interference by the referee.
second. The snooker handicap Donaghey
by Was
far the better
and Ian
had his was won by Mr. Bryce Stewart opponent well in hand almost as Complaint is made in Wales that no Rugby has been played at either the elementary or second- ary schools of the Principality during the war, whilst "Soccer has been kept in full swing.
Boon as the seconds were called
out of the ring in the first round. The spar went to four rounds. after which Donaghey awarded the honours.
was
In the text bout. Gate and
The Athletic News is alvocat Harris slogged away at each other and some hard punches were ex-ing the modest increase of 50 per changed. As in the first contest, the cent.in pre-war wages for profess men discarded all idea of science onal football players. If this and the pace WAN, from
were to come about, see of the a boring point of view, out of all clubs would have a bad time. proportion to the men's staying powers. In-fighting was indulged in most of the time and finally
Gale went down for the count.
The third contest was short much the better man and he had his opponent down for the count in the first round.
and fast. Neill Wis
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ROMANCE OF PIRATE-SUNK SHIP.
TRIBUTE BY A GERMAN KAIDER
Landon, Dec. 20-Mourned for a year as dead owing to the disappearance of his vessel-dae, as it proved afterwards, to the activities of the German raider has arrived during the week end Wolf-Captain John B. Rugg
at his home in Hampton-road, Forest Gate, from a prison catap in Germany.
A typical master wariner, with pointed beard and laughing eyes, Captain Kagg, although he has been in the hands of the enemy since March 1916, appears little the worse for his lung captivity. His ship, the Dee, a full-rigged sailing vessel was bound in
from ballast
SATURDAY, MARCH 1: 1919,
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In pre-war days, the Army was so constituted that it was impossible for a man to hold a commission unless he possessed a private income, and was in such a position that he could take up the Anay as a profession.
We have seen, during the past | Douglases four years great alteration. A Steamboats
lados (Pref-) civil population became a mighty
Indos (Def.) army, an army which had to
Shells Australia when she was overtaken furnish leaders from its owu ranks. by the Wolf. The skipper's last We have witnessed some aston- letters hotne had referred to theishing results, a private soldier presence of the raider in these rising to become a brigadier- waters, and expressed the sincere general in four short years. We hope that she would not be have seen how vitally necessary
Within tw encountered. three days of leaving port the I suppose, will England be called Langkats
the any is to us; never again, | Kailsins
**The Unready.”
Dea was sunk.
Mauritius
of
The German official account of the Wolf's voyage, by the captain, refers to the incident in the following paragraphs:-
I sent a boat over, and it was definitely ascertained that we had to deal with the Mauritius-owned sailing ship Dee......The crew were mainly uiggers, or half- castes; some of them were a very ne lot. The relations between the captain and the crew were excellent, and remained so juring the period of captivity on board; indeed, it was such as we only found later in a similar degree in one or two American and Japan-
rse vessels......
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Then why. I ask, should such a necessary profession be open only to these who, through the gifts of the gods, can afford to ok apon the service as a hobby?
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To me the system was before the war is nothing 31 relic of an better than obsolete age. The noblest We took all gear sad vietuall of all professions should be ug stores from the Dee, and opened up to men who have then sunk her in the after-the ability and grit to go in and win, just as men may win through John B. Ragg, who made a must to the top of the tree in almost favourable impression, stood by any other profession, unhampered the rail agil stared outwards by that must suobbish of all towards the spot where his vessel handicaps the absence of means! was
As far as can judge, Scottish football players are beut on going on with the formation of a Players' Union, but are decidedly against it being ruu by Trade Union officials who have nothing to do with the game: If An extra was supplied by Stoker, they are wise in both respects. Barclay and Stoker Arbuckle and the men did their beat to please are upholding the honour of the audience. After some fast | Scottish ltugby football in work with plenty of punching,Belgium. A letter from the front Stoker Barclay gave up and the states that the Rugby team had ... The old Captain match was accordingly awarded played three matches up till the to his opponent.
time of writing and had wou every game. They beat the 110th Company Royal Engineers by 32 points to nil; the 14th Royal Scots by 12 points to nil; and the 17th Northumberland Fusiliers by 19 points to nil; a grand total of 93 points for and against.
Under the healing of "The Roll Call the Field gives a typical representative of
the traditions and achievements of a large number of sports and pastimes from the men fullwing these who have fallen in the war.
THE
GENERAL ELECTION,
HOW PARTIES POLLED.
How the rutes were cast in Luades and the English boroughs for the various parties at the General Election is shown in the following table:—
Ind. Workers
07,730
Euglish
his
commencing her death struggle. He seemed unconse
ous that one tear after another rolled unceasingly from
into eyes down
Lia white beard. He had sailed his ship for many years, and would hardly coutain himself; we could under- stand his felings only too well. on the Dee took a plunge and
sunk.
We are till that this is the age of democracy; thau let us den cratise the Army, and open up one more profession to the men who have fought and risked their lives for the safety sud new life of the grand old Empire.
a small. For uusel, he never asked anything, but only for his crew.
It is the only ship Captain
"We were capture in the London. Boroughs. For Cricket is picks out Lient,ugg has lost during his lung career at sun. His capacity as a
In-lian Ocean," "Captain Hugg C-Unionist...340,466 1,202,059 K. L. Hutchings, Kent; for Co-Liberal... 75,137, 429,402 Hugby Football, Lieat. J. Ein shipping circles that it was ative. "We first saw the Wolf master was so highly esteemed tobia Daily Chronicle represent- Liberal
835,556 Raphael: For Association, Second-only with the greatest reluctance when she was on our port quarter, Labour ...109,360 786,683 Lieut. H. G. Bache; for Golf, that the loss of the Dee with all and we took her to be a steainer Unionista 20,288
75,660 Captain John Graham; for Lawn- hande
assumed bound for Australia or Tasmania. 120,453 tennis. A. F. Willing; and for
wus finally
went into I hoisted the ship's number, but 189,051 Track Athletics, Captain Wand is family
mourning. And in March got no reply antil she was pretty of the following year when the close, when I saw she was a Wolf Squeezed through the German, . blockade and returned to Ger- muy, oud when he had been nearly a year on board the news was received that he was still alive and well!
Independent... 01,741
,
As the result of the polling indicated London is represented by 34 Coalition Unionists, 10 Coalition Liberals, 1 Liberals, 1 Labour, 2. Independents, and a Unionist. This is apart from unopposed returns.
In the English Counties the voting has been:
Co.-Unionists
Cu.-Liberal
Liberal
Labour
Ind. Workers
Unionista Independent
THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM.
Halswelle.
"She seat up a sigual to lay to, and about 0.30 a boat came alongside with two officers and 12 marines, all well-ärined.
"The officers were courteous, but told me they would have to seize the Dea, and that we must all consider ourselves prisoners
of war.
Before they left the ship they took all the provisions, but would not let me bring away my books or curios.
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300 WINDOWS SMASHED.
1.31.C.A., when the city was being occupied by British troops, Az ubi sailor, named Tom
was related by Sir Arthur Tapp at the YMCA. headquarters Pascoe, who has lived for sume
We have 3 fine The first impression which he years at Borking, near Braintree,
recently. in Essex, went ruad recently and made upon his captors apparently
secretary in charge of the advance before he could be secured had endured throughout his enforced
work," he said, "a fine military- 1,477,219 smashed over 300 windows in association with the стете
looking men, who was chosen 398,468
shops and cottages in the district. of the Wolf, and when the
because of his special fitness for 549,551
finished When he had
his prisoners were disembarked,
the job. He was sent up with the 807,379 wild career it looked as if au air
the officers, including "Mines,"
first Army of Occupation. When he $2,000 raid had taken place, or a cyclone the officer responsible for placing "On the Wolf we were sent got into Cologue he set to work It was 70,378
had passed over the neighbour the bubs that set the Dee down below every night, and at to look after premises. 127,060
hood. Pascoe, who is 70 years the bottom-twice came to see all times when she was approach not easy. The Germans were of age, suddenly leaped out of him and to wish him "Good-bye." ing another victim. There were aut friendly, and did not want to bel, seized a poker, and clad To quote the official record 300 prisoners on board, and they hand over-buildings, so he took only in a shirt rushed out into again—
were all stowed away on the the bull by the horns, marched Bradford-street, where his house One admirable prisoner was
'tween deck in a space only 120 boldly into one of the big hotels, is situated. windows he could reach, includ- Dee, Captain John B. Kugg; the That, as I afterwards learned, was and then
He broke all the the shipper of the sailing ship feet long, with 20 feet beam. aade the proprietor solute bim, MACARONI, PASTESTARS, EGGNOODLES, VERMICELLI,
commandeered the ing his own, and a villager, who loss of his heart. Deeply bowed, where they had kept the 600 premises." The Y. M. C. A. has 411...177... 82 ....
tried to arrest the man's wild he stood at the rail, as the Dee nines they took out, and sowed today between £600,000 and £700,000 worth of stores in 1900
402 186... 82
career, received a nasty blow on sank; he had taken off his hat, as all over the oceans.
"In February of this year we France and Flanders, continued the head. As he went on sanah-if he stood at the grave of a 1906
157...376... 83
... 5+
ing windows. Pascoe yelled that relative, and wept." We did not 1910(Jan.) 273...275 ... 82
were brought to Kiel and I have Sir Arthur. In England they 40 1910 Dec.) 272...272... 34... 42 lark world." When he was over-well understand his griel. He
that he was letting light into a disturb him; we could only too been interned in various camps had 1,500 hats, many of which in Germany. I could not seriously would not be wanted in a few 1918 385...160
62
come he was removed to the lived on a really patriarchal foot complain of any treatment, mouths' time, and could be used Head police station, and there declared ing with the crew, mostly blacks but some of the military officers as social cautres to brighten by a doctor to be insane and from Mauritius. They came to were subjected to every indigvillage life, and life in large removed to an asylan.
him with all their troubles, great nity."
industrial centres.
The following table shows the state of parties at each General Election since 1886
Unionist. Liberal. Nat. Lab. 1886
394...191... 85 1892 315...274... 81
1895
Here it will be seen that the Unionist Party to-day nearly reach the strength of 1886.
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