Sworn In for Important Post.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1925,
Sport That is Full of Thrills.
Retiring Secretary and Successor.
Mr. Hanford MacNider, former head of the American Legion, and much decorated war hero, being sworn in as the now Assistant Secretary of War, succeeding Mr. Dwight F. Davis who became Secretary upon the retirement of Mr. John W. Weeks. Left to right, Dwight F. Davis, MacNider and Col. John B. Randolph. "
A sport for daredevils is the game of parachute jumping. This Pearl Harbour, Hawali, picture shows Lieut. J. R. Tate, U. S navy, with his heels in the air and a thousand. or two feet of space below him-but a parachute opening safely to case his tumble, A socond jumper is climbing from the plane's rear seat.
Tourists Urged to Visit Hongkong.
War,'
Mr. John W. Woeks, former U, 8. Secretary of sponds his last day in the War Department Office with his successor and former assistant, Mr. Dwight B. Davis, who was appointed when Mr. Weeks (seen on right) 'resigned because of his health..
American Prelate Returns From Europe.
YOUNG CHINESE
Rival to Men In Horse Race.
Cardinal Dougherty, of Philadelphia, stepping off the gangway of the 8.6. Paris on his arrival in New York aftor visiting Europe and the Vatican, where he had an audience with the Pope,
GMPRESS OF CANADA
JUNICS AT HONGKONG HARBOR
the moon to wander over with quaint villages, giving a more in- timate picture of Oriental life than the somewhat cosmopolitan Hong- kong itself can do: with a residen- section up on the Peak which
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"If in doubt, declares the vet-miles from the city, where there to see. especially when there is a erans globe-trotter "go to Hong-are two well laid out golf courses. hotel where the gorgeous view of kong to spend the winter months. Deep Wate. Bay and Happy Val the harbor can be enjoyed while for from November to February ley boast courses too, so that sipping ambrosial- ten. it is a wonderful winter, resort. If you should have a tiresome hole even while one looks, the m you decide to go this year, you will which you never can do in
drops like spend a season there be-win..sack. Four self complacency. up on sen and land so that there a bird, and lights spring it becomes over crowded. as Or if you are interested in tac-are two skles, at peace with each bound to do when it becomes ing. there the Jockey Club at other, full of stars, A generally accepted spot to visit Happy Valley and a race course during the cold months.
And Isn't so very far away Teradled in three hills What is there to do it Hong and walking both wave attractions Vancouver travel the fastest ships Motoring Hongkong From Victoria and kong? That is a question easily Bongkong which they do not al on the Pacfile, the Canadian Fa answered. If you are a golfer. naye have. The environs of the clie Empresses.. then take along your clubs, for the city are posutiful with bays whose start out on a world cruise from Or, one could best golf to be found to the east ciest waters reflect the stare at New York, and be dropped in ia
Fan-ling. about, oighteen night and make a shining path for Hongkong.
The abovo is being circulated to intending tourists, in North America, by the Canadian Pacific companies.
German Relatives Meet PrincessTM Mafalda.
At the running of the Newmarket Town Plate at New- market, Miss Eileen Joel, shown on Hogier," come in first in a four-mile race, beating the men jockeys to the finish. Another woman caine in second, the men finishing· well in the rear.
The Way to Cut Taxes In Half.
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This shows the Princess Mafalda of Italy on first visit to her bridegroom's family Standing, loft to tight: Prince Waldemar, Prince Christian, Prince Honry of Prussia brother of the ex-Kaiser, Prince Philip of Hosso, husband of Princess Mafalda, Landgrafe Frederick Karl of Hosse, Frince Richard of Hohse, Princo Wolging of Hesse. Soated, loft to right: Princess Henry of Prussia, Princess Mafalde, Landgrafen Margarethe of Hesso eletor of the ex-Kaiser, and Frincess Wolfgang of Hedne.
Mr. Andrew Mellon U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, as he appeared before the Ways and Means Committee of Congress at Washington, D. C., at its income tax hearing. Mr. Mellon suggested a roapportioning of the budget for the
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