THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 28, 1927.
A flying fold afloat is the U. B. S. Saratoga, viewed from the bow (left, above) as she was formally commissioned at Camden, NJ., as flagship of the United States aircraft fleet. Below, Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer (left) commandant of the fourth naval district, congratulates Captain Harry E, Yarnell upon his new command. The Saratoga is the biggest. vogsel over constructed in America, having a length of 888 foot from end to end of her two-acre flying deck. It can house 83 planes; cost $40,000,000; displaces $3,000 tons and spoed through the water at 40 miles an hour. At the right is a stern view of its curious superstructure, which lies entirely to starboard to widen the flying deck. Here you see four of its sight
eight-inch guns.
Pawah, sacred white elo- phant of Burma, being hoist". od aboard the Minnekahda at New York: Judging from the "laugh-like expression. Pawah was in high feather, because his year of circus
work in America was over and he was beaded for his distant home.
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Even at the International Polo Matches at Meadow Brook, Long Island, Helen Wills, although out of her sport- ing eloment, starred in the fashion promenade in the pad- Frank dock between the halves. With her hero is Hitchcock, brother of Thomas Hitchcook, Jr., whose playing was a featured of the matches.
Oscar Slater (above) has boon freed and the charge, of murder on which he was im- prisoned for 17 years will be dropped following a year's fight on his behalf by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Slater, arrested after circumstantial evidence indicated that the slaying of an aged woman in a Glasgow flat was his work, was found guilty and imprisoned. His criminal record also stood against him. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took up the case a year ago and, using the same methods of deduction and analysis his famous character used in the detective stories, cloarly est- ablished that Slater could not have.committed the crime.
No less hazardous than flying across the water was the trans-Atlantic voyage and return to Newport, R. I., of the little aloop Primrose TV whose crew is shown here at the end of the trip. Their sail to England and back, a distance of 4200 miles, was replete with high adventure and danger. In the centre is Frederick Lothrop Ames, wealthy owner of the vessel.
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Drifting helplessly on the North Pacifio for months, members of the crew of this Japa- nese fishing schooner became cannibals before they died. Lots were drawn among the twelve to determine those who must die that the others, facing starvation, might live.. The sohooner finally drifted into Port Townsend, Wash., whore, the ghastly remains of the ton mon and the bodies of the two who had boon the last to dio, were discovered
John Quick of Vancouver, B. O, has just colobrated his 107th birthday, and he still keeps busy at a man's job. He is shown here making patterns for women's dresses, while Mrs. Aubrey A. Neef of Beattle, looks on. Mr. Quick was horn in 1820 in England.
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