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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1924.

RED RECEPTION.

ENGLISH GUESTS OF SOVIET

IN LONDON.

London, November8 -The most conspicuous feature of the remark" able reception given last night by the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires in London, Mr. Rakovsky, and Mrs. Rakovsky in honour of the seventh year of the Bolshevik Revolution, writes the "Daily Chronicle "repre sentative, was the sharp contrast between the nature of the gather

ing and itssetting.

Chesham House, where the pro- ceedings took place, is a stately building of the conventional old Embassy style, with spacious

leading one into another.

In the days of the Tsarist regima

gatheringa

it was the scene of many brilliant

The dominant note of last night's event was quiet and deliberate good taste. Mr. Rakovsky was evidently resolved that at the first official Red reception to London there should be no extravagances such us might afford material for scandal or gössip..

And so everything was done very quietly and "in the best of

taste.

Embassy buildings.

In the courtyard were stationed a number of policeman, one of whom politely requested that the invitation card be shown.

BILL BRUCE.

PRINCE OF WALES "IS WELCOME.

"Dear Prince,-This part of your Dominion is the best mooss country in America, Stop off a day with me and I will prove it Respectfully yours, Bill Bruce."

THE CHINA MAIL.

ROTOR-BOATS."

REVOLUTION IN SAILING' SHIPS.

Berlin, November 8:- The appearance of a strange new craft in Kiel Harbour last week was the The Prince of Wales has never signal for rumours in the German received a more unconventional Press heralding a revolution in the invitation than this, written on world of shipping only comparable birch bark, and sent to him dur-. ing his tour of Canada, by Billy with the drastic changes that took Bruce; famous throughout North-place when the

descendant of Rosaleyn Gordon

hunter,

steamship

and for shipping in general, was

THE ROUND-UP.

COLT-HUNTING IN THE

NEW FOREST,

"MILITARY CUSTOMS,

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TO-DAY'S

THEY HAVE SURVIVED FOR

*YEARS

Major C. T. Tomnes gave a lecture at the Royal United Service Institut tion on "Old Military Customs still was in the chair. “ Extant, ** Mr. J. W. Fortoeen'e

Major Tomes, speaking of salutes, hand was held open with the pulm Baid that the fact that nowadays the i

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Captain Jocelyn Lucas writing.in the Morning Post, says: Tourists motoring through the New Forest aroused by the herds of pic must often have their interest

turesque ponies roaming at large or standing round some shady pool, and may hazerd a guess as to chief guide. ern Ontario as an outfitters and superseded the old sailing-vessel.

their ownership and origin.

Should their curiosity lead them to be a relic of the raised and open THE following are members of the How Herr Anton Flettner, a young to stop and approach the animale hand which had been the sign of Bill Bruce is a Scotsman and a German engineer) who has already they will see that every pony- greeting from almost prehistoric Abraham, B apartments of dignified aspect, all Cumming, the great African lion achieved fame as inventor of a new both branded and tail marked, the concealed tint might be used as Bagram J. T. times, denoting that nothing was Alves A. A, type of rudder, hopes to harness former to denote the owner, and missile. The officer's elite with Benjamin V. He, ist known also as Mud the wird-motors for air-craft, as the latter the district. Each forest sword was full of historical in Birkett H. River Bill, because while, in well as other types of machines agister knows every pony in his terent. The motion led the Cox M. J. charge of construction crew in railroad work in Canada, he dia-explained to me by himself on district, no mean feat when one days of chivalry when the Crusi E, F. M.

recover" was surely a relic of the Crouchar N. V. A. covered Mud River, which he found so attractive that he made behalf of "The Observer," writes realises that the Forest extends der kissed the cross befors engag- Gould J. his home on the district. its Berlin correspondent. It is too foresters, both landowners and be crom-hilt of the sword.

over some 92,000 acres Certain ing in rombat, and the cross was Guttorren A. A. "Thirty-two years, young, hun-early yet to, estimate the value of cottagers have the right to graze

Lammert Geo. P. dred pounds, five feet ten, quick experiments already made, but the their ponies and cattle the year puifit from the earliest times. In

Flags had been used as rallying Lammert H. A of foot, tongue, eye and mind." fact is how the Marietta "Sunday industrial interests and Snanciers, attended, and during the acorn colours came into use and took the that Germany's biggest round, allowing them to roam un- the Civil War of 1642-350) company Times" has described him. The including Krupp and the Hamburg and beechmast harvest they can fonn of the personal banners of the eulogy continues:-

America Line, are backing them, turn out their pigs, "Master of streams, lakes, points, to belief in

the hopes

various officers who raised the con CROWD IN THE STREET. forests and Bush. Too binmed expressed by technical experts..

RUNNING LOOSE.

panies or regiments. In the time Naturally, the event had occa-handsome and talented to le

of Queen Anite their number was At the present moment. Het Every April sioned some sensation in the buried in the heart of the wild, Fleitner has used his knowledge Show is held at Lyndhurst, in the days of Waterloo the colours HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS'

Stallion Pony reduced to two per regiments neighbourhood, and a crowd as- but this is of his own choosing, of aero-dynamics to such purpose which the prize-winners to be measured. Oft by 6ft 6in. and sembled in the street outside to As an 'expert driver of dogs" he that a three master fitted with twin eligible have to be turned out in were carried on half-pikes; and watch the guests arrive. Someone has been sought to work in towers, steel-plated, rotating on a the Forest and allowed to run loose the staffs of our present colours told me that a large red flag had, northern scenes for our ever-pivot at the rate of a hundred for several months, the result being were still known officially THE following are members of the been flying all day long from the popular moving picture at a revolutions to the minute, can the continued improvement of the colour pikes." Th the reign of

fabulous salary, but this offer achieve a speed some fifteen times breed. was not sufficient to draw, him greater than that obtained by using it is a common sight to see a mob dress were the same, except for a

A week or two afterwards Charles 1. military dress and civil. Carroll, an ordinary safl and effect a saving of ponies come galloping madly certain

M. A. Razack, way from his chosen. life.

of labour that varies with the size down some forest glade accom-military dress. As the fashions "As chief of his Indian guides of sail the boat would have carried panied by a couple of screaming.thanged so did the uniform, but ip Yung Pak."

regimental

J. W. Kew, uniformity he shows and displays a wisdom under normal circumstances. One fighting, corufed stallions. Often very in more slowly,

0. Kitoboll, which, if exerted on employees man alone controls the pivot. a mare gets seriously hurt in the Charles T. pattern listed nearly H. E Edwards. capable of some co-operation,

The F. M. L. Scaroų... mêlée and some are killed every 100 years. From about 1780 mili. F. Groes", At the top of the wide stair-would keep busy at least 1,000

"I studied air-currents first in case, which was carpeted in men.

Once a year every owner rounds ty dress, and civil dress begun to V. Yvanovich red, was a familiar portrait of

Energy beyond description the Zeppelin works," said Herr up his stock, brands his foals, and, diverge, and between the Peninsula A. P. Greaves, Lenin draped in red, a portrait and so contagious that it was among the first to recognise Perhaps, catches a few three-year and the Crimes the former became H. M. H. Esmail.

Flettner. and Count Zeppelin showing him tranquil and re almost impossible to be quiet of the importance of this type of are seldom broken, and simply improvement afterwards flective, against a background of at rest when he is in sight, orte research work. I constructed a

olds to break and sell. The mares ex and ridiculous. An Sea Kon Chi. just wants to get up and do new type of rudder for airships, die.

begin, Beneath it was a modest display something when Billy Bruce is but conditions for aircraft were so

foam wild and breed until they and now civil and military dress of flowers. Higher up was un- around.

were much the same again, except for colour. obtrusively placed a bust of Lenin.

bad after the war in Germany that The Indians in his employ accepted a post as director of the

THE CHASE. This too, was a familiar portrait. show an admiration bordering on Institute for Aero-and Hydro abouts of the ponies, three or four sent marches started, originated Having ascertained the where-hents, to which nearly all our pre- Major" Tonies wid the drum The face of the dead leader wears reverence. This has been es Dynamics in Amsterdams where foresters, who are often accome with the lanzknechts, who were that grim sardonic expression tablished by an ever-ready kind-applied my aerial experiments in panied by an agister, sally forth, very proud of their drums and which the Bolsheviks regard as hisness and assistance in need which steering gear to craft in the mounted on sturdy ponies, with a varied rolls. The word "tation" most heroic mood.

embraces everything from free water. "While I was working good cattle dog at their heels. IN EVENING DRESS. tobacco lo the reading of a burial there I still continued experiments The herd, tame enough as a rule, tap toe, meaning to close the was derived from the old Dutch "Mr. Rakovsky, wearing evening service when it was impossible in the technical laboratories of the scent trouble, and begin to gallon taps or taverns. At a certain hour dress with a small red flower in his to have the services of a priest. buttonhole, and Mrs. Rakovsky Bruce speaks the

University of Gottingen. It was away across the moorland, follow the drunners marched from post Indian during these experiments that ing (dressed simply in black) stood language fluently, and much of recalled results achieved seventy or going boldly across

the tracks in single file, to post in the town beating their at the head of the great staircase, his time in camp is spent in years ago by the forerunner of The riders spread out, endeavour signal of having taken their place country. drius. The First Post would be n and received the guests with an translating conversation between Helmholtz, Professor Magnus, reing to drive them in the right to start their round, and the Last agreeable, smile and handshake.

the hunters and the Indians.. lating to the velocity of shots fired direction, to cut out ponies that do Post of their having reached its "Bruce's post office address is and the extraordinary effect of not belong, and to check the re end. The expression, trail arms." Willet, Ontario, via Armstrong." wind on violently rotating bodies. peated attempts to break away: had come down to ns from the

This is known to physicists as the which the more spirited and wily days of pikes, 'Magnus Effect." Till now nobody ones invariably make whenever Dutch word and used to be pro-

Furlough was thought of turning this theoretical they see a chance. The mages nouneed to rhyme with "cough." knowledge to practical use. This have their foals, at foot, and are we have done to-day. Next year often followed by their yearlings. a tower will be erected just outside as well. As soon as possible they Berlin, as well as several in Hol- will make for one of the numerous land, for the purpose of generating bogs, across which there are few LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. electricity from air.

safe paths, to try and escape their pursuers, and, urless the Bankers the herd will divide, and some are lucky or exceptionally quick, may be lost.

Such precautions were necessary;

'safety first" will for a long time

yet be the Soviet motto.

books.

After this formality was over. the company dispersed into the adjoining ballroom and adjacent apartment,in which a small band, hidden away in a corner, played soft tunes.

heard someone ask.

Mr. Gregory' did not come.

✓

GROOM

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DEPARTURES.

Of course, everyone felt a little strange at first. That was not surprising, for an official Bolshevik Teception in London-and in the

London, November 16-All his old Tsarist Embassy-is not an acquaintances are envying the good event of every day occurrence. No fortune of Ernest Bancroft, groom one quite knew what to do with at the Bardon Stud Farm, living at

SEAWORTHINESS. themselves or what was going to Bardon Hill, Leicestershire, who

"Experiments have shown that happen next.

has won £25,000 in a sweepstake my big cylinders do not endanger But, as is usual on these occa-on, the Irish Derby. He invested the boat. in bad weather, as has sions, the throng soon broke up in a single ticket, costing 10s, and been feared. On the contrary,

CAUGHT IN THE BOG. into little cliques, and then the drew the winning horse. The heavy storms that we have en

When one particular pony is conversation resolved itself into other day he received a cheque for countered when manceuvring wanted, advantage is taken of animated guesswork as to the the amount due to him, and after barely touched us. The boat re- these hogs. A man goes on ahead identity of those present.

paying it into his bank returned mained practically steady. By and hides on some firm spot just "Will Mr. Gregory cume?" I quietly to his employment. Ban-means of the peculiar current off the track. The ponies are croft is 24, and the youngest son of effects created by the rotating driven past; and, as the wanted But a big family of farm workers. bodies, it was possible to steer right animal comes near, out jumps the I was told that an official from the Asked whether he would invest into the wind with a minimum, hidden man, yelling and waving. Foreign Office was present. the money and retire to a life of change of angle. A rotating The galloping pony is going too "Over there is Mr. Bernard leisure now he was rich, he rejoined, cylinder is the best possible fast to stop, and plunges wildly Shaw!" Mr. Bernard Shaw, as white and as, wise-looking as an fuss about it than I am.

People are making a lot more satural creator of currents. Not into the bog, where he is speedily

Why only did we manage speed fifteen roped and hauled out. O'd Testatment patriarch, twinkled should I give up my work? Horses times that of sail, but our move- An old stallion will sometimes and smiled on a little crowd are my best pals, and I should be ments are practitically unhamper deliberately lead his herd under composed of Mr. H. G. Wells, Mr. miserable if I had no work."

ed. An electromotor in the pivot low boughs, galloping full tilt Arthur Henderson, Mr. Sidney

sets the cylinder going or stops it, through the glorious old oak and Webb (whose appearance suited

and in a few seconds we either holly woods, where a mounted from Sydacy, Brisbane. the occasion), and Mr. C. P. Among those present I observed have our full strength or have man can only follow with difficul- Trevelyan. On the whole the late the French Military Attaché, the turned it off. This is a great ty. Here the dog is invaluable; Government was well represented. Czecho-Slovakian Military Attaché, advantage compared with the time for his voice can be heard long

DECORATIONS AND MEDALS.

taken in adjusting a heavy sail, after the the Turkish, Persian, and Afghanis- But the interest of the occasion tan representatives.

ponies are lost to even if the number of hands sight, but here again, when they was not in the distinction of TOUCH OF "THE EAST.

needed were no consideration, emerge into the open the numbers individuals so much as in the

One of the most

Our boat, which we call the are sure to be reduced. As the general character of the assembly features of the gathering was the Rotor Boat, was first built as a ponies tire they become more

striking Most of the guests came in. evening dress and many of them presence of a considerable number model and tried on the canal used arenable, but there is always the of Eastern guests, dressed in by the University for technical ex- danger of a breakaway until the wore decorations and medals.

Eastern robes.

periments. We measured the play anal scene takes place, in a well- But there was no rigid rule, and Mr. Krassin was among the of the wind on the sall-surface and fenced field with a stockade in one people for the most part, wore guests, and with her were her two discovered the absolute superiority corner. what they pleased One youth daughters (one of whom is study of the Rotor as regards speed. The The outward ride in lovely arrived in a sports jacket and ing agricultute in Edinburgh). thickness of the metal cylinder scenery, wild as the day when These young ladies were the most wall as it turns is about two mill Rufus hunted, and the thrilling Mr.

George Lansbury also conspicuously dressed of all the metres. This means that the gallop for miles driving the ponies appeared in his'".

working" clothes

weight of the new sailing-machine over hill and dale, moorland, wood, women there. Mo with a soft collar and a flannel

I noticed one young Englishman with the pivots is only a fifth of and bog, all go to making it a shirt.

wearing a row of medals, above the weight a boat of the same size wonderful axperience for any His son was trifle more which was placed a small red carried in the way of sails and sportsman sufficiently fortunate to "correct" in a dinner jacket.

Lower. With him ware several masts.

be asked to participate in one of RED FLOWERS POPULAR. young girls, one of whom remark

these round-ups. The ladies were all very quietly ed. "Isn't it ripping?"

Lien Shing, (Br.] J M. & Co.' attired. One was very conspicuous. "Yes, what an

for Shanghai, Swatow. in a flaming red dress. Many exclaimed her companion.

Ouderkerk, (Dắt) J. C. I L women and men, 100, wore red But it was the simplicity of the For instance, on voyages to Asia a

EVERYBODY for Rotterdam, Manila, gardenias in their button-holes,

This red flower happens to be one so much Aud the contrast with to 80 per cent, can be effected and free from, disease germs the oocs for Amoy, Swatow.

gathering that impressed itself on saving in fuel of anything from 30

NEEDS SOMETIMES.

Dukat, (Nor) Thoreson & Co., for Swatow. TJ keep the fashionable now, so that one could the old-world splendour of the for some 99 per cent. of the hours sional use of a lezative is necessary sytou dlord

Tangistan, (Br.) Cheong Hoo, be both red and stylish last night place was ever present. But it was mostly foreigners who

out, either by using the Rotors for most people. To meet this need, The great apartment had been as chief methods of navigation for sithor for men or women,

Wong Shek Kung, (Chil.) Kun affected a touch of red

redecorated. In pale aristocratic certain types of boats and oa cer le better

nothinx Chung, for Saigon. Russians were present in very blue, massive candelabra compos tain routée, or by using them as

than tinkettes,: cho Haldis, (Br.) Woo Fat Seng, for large bumbers. All the leading ed of hundreds of lights illuminat- supplements to steam and motér

Saigon. WALANG members of the Soviet Colony ined the scene. On the floors soft boats to increase speed at re- London and it is not a small red carpets had been laid, except duced cost. In any case it will population were there. But there in the ballroom, where the austere mosus a great saving on cargo dainty little geatle as patare was no Azunting of red."

"parptetTM Tomained. In the grates boats. The Few diplomatists of first-class large homely fires were laid."

difference madel

Inzalives. Pinketta ensure daily regalarity, keep rank, attended. I do not knowDuring the evening simple re- enonnous. The future of agricul attacks

to coal and off interests should be the liver healthily non rispel bitiner whether or not the whole corps, freshments were

and alck boxdiobra.

· served-tea," tural machines may be entirely abemists, oipost free, O dents the vial, was invited, but I fancy that there coffes, ices, sandwiches. A few revolutionised if everything suc must have been some tactful bottles of port and white wine ceeds. One day the wind may be

were opened.

"giving us heat, light, and power."

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