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LEOPARD VS. ELK.
AN EYE WITNESS RELATES`A. JUNGLE FIGHT;
"THE BEST EVER SAW**
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"We are a new group, a new mb évenly" contested, between animals of the Conservative Party," said of the forust, (one for his life and Mr. Marshall Freeman addressing the other for his dinner) I ever saw in London the inaugural meeting of writes "J. W." in the "Ceylon the new constitutional Party of Times," took place on the borders of Komari Tank, Eastern Province: which he is President.
As I was waiting one evening for He declared that another slection would soon be in sight. There was ten to flight,, my cooly and I ha too much pacidam in Conservative built, with grass sods and mud, a lendership and too much anxiety to triangular "butt" to hide behind. meet the opposition half-way; too much hankering after proselytes: well-hidden from vlow, when I too much neglect of old frier.da: heard a sound of rushing and the too much pandering to opponents: crash of snapping brancho-jungle the Members' Encicanro.
and too much of the mandarin at- noise suggestive of elephants charg
ing through forest. titude at headquarters. A limited number of tickets aro
I knew at once it was A stag available ahd may be obtained from
The whole method of choosing Messrs. Linstead & Davis, Alexan candidates" he added. "must be a breaking cover, but did not Khow Purty finance muat be the cause I was not to be left long dra Buildings, on or before Satur-tered.. day February 26th, 1927, at a cost placed on a wider and more open in doubt, for out bolted a fine antler. and when well out, turned "ke of $10 each per day or $30 for basis. The Meating.
"Whiteha.needs a financial Mus-Hghtning, facing a fairly large male The charge for admission for coint who will begin by reducing Peopard which had tried for a cap- Ladies to the Members' Enclosure the number of Cabinet ministers by Sure whilst in its afr will be $1 per day. Each member one-half." Eran obtain upon application = tol the Secretary, badges for the Ad- imission of two Ladies free of jcharge. Op no pretext will CAIL dren be permitted in either enclosure during the Arst three days racing.
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"Spots Tremendous: Leap The male, olk always lies fh the most difficult place to approach.
10.
MR. COOK'S VISIT. and when disturbed and making a dash for herty: outdoes all other jandmala Jn smashing and crashing
ita surroundings.
Solutions will be published with the results, in this paper, every Thursday following the Closing Date.
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MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO
WATCH HIM...
My attendant begged of me to take advantage of my opportunity || 13. land shoot, but with the greatest difculty managed to keep him quiet.
London, Feb. 10 Cape Town.-Speaking at Muizen- burg. Mr, Tielman Roos, Minister of
"Spets" tried for a knockout with. Justice replying to a question whe ther be approved of the proposed a tremendous leap, when the elk visit of Mr. A. J.. Cook to South side-stepped and nearly had, “Puss” Africa, said that no application had on its horns, and then commenced yet been made to the Government such a fight as would have graced ten the admission of Mr. Cook. Albert Hall or any boxing ring in
He thought it unwise for a per- the world: son, expecially from England, to be refused permission to come to South Africa when he applied for ad mission.
Neither of them'eould take ad- vantage of the other, and they were a very well balanced pair.
Mr. Roas added that he did notTalk think any revolutionary doctrine would fall on fertile soil in Souths, Africa, but he agreed that it might be necessary to keep an eye on Mr. Cook when he reached South Africa.
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TO SATURDAY. their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the enclosure:
By Order.
C. B. BROWN,
Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1927.
From the manner in which the
hedged away from being neuri imagined that it had sensed presence.
The ring which they made was about 12 yards away, and the "sure row of my life is that I had not a camera to take snapshots of the most glorious fight that was going jon..
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The big cat was a mean cuss and did things for which I self-appoint- ed referee, nearly shouted “Foul!”. 3 had put in two rotary bullets into my bail and shot gun, and sorely tempted at times to put: one "The Shock Panch" and its of them through the earçase of thla not a story of prize fighting-is a mean and dirty fighter, but I had Paraniount picture starring no need, as events proved later on. Secretary.Richard Dix, a screen version of i
* A Unique Sight, the John Monk Saunders story, What a picture it was! The leo- Frances Howard is featured op- pard, always on the aggressive. posite the staż.
Elk's eyes are always large and In "The Shock Funch," Dix is expressivo" enough, but now they a young society fellow, who would appeared as large as saucers, and rather trade punches with a real the deep channel impression that "pug" any day than wrestle, with runs from the eye appeared to be a tea cup. During a course of full of tears, and an awful look of training, he develops a devastat-fear.
The points of the horn were clean ing "shock punch," which lands on the point of the chin with white, and its huge neck and body lightning force.
appeared twice its ordinary 'size'ns all the hair was upon end:
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"Mary things said about the dan- gers of very hot or very cold baths are merely old wives tales," and Mr. Leonard Hill, director of the Department of Applied Physiology Now Dorothy Clark (Miss By Order of the Board of in the National Institute of Be Howard), Dix's fiancee, takes to got further away from us and The Aght continued. but the elk Directors.
search, lecturing at the Gresham fighting about as much as she nearer to the edge of the tank. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., College. Basinghall Street. Ewould to hoop skirts, so young Seeing the elk edging into the In Russin people, after partly Savage has to promise to behave. water the leopard paced itself for epoking themselves in a steam chamber, will rush cut of doors She tells him that she won't be a mighty spring, intending to land and roll in the snow. This prac. able to see him for some time, on the back of its prey...
But he reckoned without his host; tice does not do them the slightest because she is going to help hér harm; on the bontrary, they derive father, a building contractor, for, at that moment, the elk stood great benefit from it."
finish a job within schedule time. on its hind legs with its horns Hot or cold baths, continued Mr: The whole family fortune is the lower prong making its cany bayonet-like, and met the charge, were very stimulating. Awrapped up in the project.
way well into the chest, while the To be near Dorothy, Dix gets atop prong went right into the neck; One Cottage Piano by John E. FINAL DIVIDEND death of medium temperature had a
clared for the year endis wonderfully quietening effect. The job with a rivet gang on the new efther separately would have been 31st, December, 1926, at the rate of tepid bath was now a egalar form building and learns that the fatal. Three Pounds Sterling 10gether of treatment for nervously irritable foreman and engineer on the job
Bonus of Two Pounds inmates of mental hospitals. Some |with a
are playing crooked and doing " On View from Sunday, the 6th Sterling is payaule on and after patients were practically made everything they can to hold up impetus with which the leopard
the 211b February. 1927, at the live in the bath, and all distrac Offices of the Corporation where tions, such as wireless, were enre-construction.
requested to fully kept from them. The system There's real smash climax and with its two forelegs going like
might sound drastic, but it was not when Dix rides up twenty-six ateam, hammers. By Order of the Court of so terribly severe. An aged Japan- stories on a girder and comes to It was then I learned why the ese gentleman, he said, voluntarily a show-down with the plotters, elk is never attacked when cross- took up his abode in a hot spring putting over the "shock punching water, as the knife like hoofs for several months and found his to good effect.
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(Further Particulars from Cua logue)
March, 1927
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 3rd March, 1927.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO.,LTD.
The following unclaimed tele grama are lying at the office of The "Great Northern Telegraph Company
(Limited):-m
Moris, from Amoy. Talshinyoko, from Shimonoseki, Clade Folkener, from Yokohama. Iyonenlia Bunhamu Tanke 71, from Amoy.
Pursell, from Kobe, Dorothy White, from Shanghai
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EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO
List of Unclaimed Telegrama lying in E. E Telegraph Office, Hong Kong.
Abel, Miller House or Claremont,
from Fooehbw.
Breyer, from Loridon... Hardiyiler, from Hongay, Jayme Sison, from Iloilo.
E..A. LEGGATT,"
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 4th Feb, 1927,
Shareholders are apply fur warrants.
Directora.
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HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION:
Chief Manager.
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SIXTH TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON
SATURDAY, 5th March, at 9.15 p.m.
- at the THEATRE ROYAL.
MAIN EVENT:
15 Round Contest for Welterweight Championship of the Colony STOKER NORMAN MORRIS H.M.S. "Hermes"
A. B. DIXON H.M.S. "Frobisher."
Booking at Moutrie's:
Members-2nd and 3rd March. General Public 4th and 6th March.
USUAL PRICES.
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Clues Acros8.
Both Went Over. They both went over with the
came, but the elk was up in a trice,
1. To make rough.. 6. Surrounding.
cut the leopard's skin into ribbons and made the pelt worthless.
When we went up to the spot the elk shook itself and quietly walked away across the tank.
In the last charge a horn was broken, but the conqueror "want away having given us a great exhi bition of defence and leaving, the aggressor deep in the mud, whore he thoroughly deserved to be.
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12. To carefully examine. 13. Consumed.
15. A place where a germ lodges
and begins to develop."
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subject for discussion. 20. Unlawful.
22. Grea
liquid.
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Chies Down.
2. Non-existence: a cipher- 18. Royal Engineers, (abbrov.)
4. Loss of memory.
5. Women of refined manners.
6. To help..
7. Initials of a military decoration,
8. Used for tonnis, golf, etc.
9: Place of ingress or a am..ll bay.
10. Thread-like.
13. Makes réparation..
17. Same as "Again."
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14. A snake-like fish,
33. Exclamation of surprise.
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An Indian serobat was severely injured by foar caged lions recent- ly while rehearsing in a travelling circus at Beziers, in the Herault department.
Zane Grex. ia without a peer when it comes to devising. dynamic plots that vibrate with Miss Davies has played roman- action, thrills and appealing tic heroines in historical dramas romance, and in "Wild Horse of Court intrigues in mediaeval Mesa," he is at his best.
times, has played roles laid in the The story, which Lucien Hub-infancy of New York, but this. bard adapted to the screen, de-time she is playing the romantic! picts in gripping manner the centre in a European Court in barbarous scheme of a gang of trigue-but of the modern day.. horse thieves and outlaws to cap- Royalty goes through its ture several thousand wild horses devious political bargainings and by stampeding them into a barb-its Burbanked romances-just 28 ed wire trap, Under the shrewd in the days of "When Knighthood and intelligent direction of Was in Flower"--but it is all George B. Seitz, this theme is strictly up-to-date so much so The animals mauled both the developed and embroidered with that a good deal of modern his-horae and the acrobat through the an assortment of climaxes. The tory is, perhaps unconsciously, bars of the cage. A tamer entered final thrill, showing the terrific echoed in the story, which is a the cage and rescued the man, but charge of the wild steeds, is, in spectacular adaptation of George the horse. was killed, itself, & camera and directorial Barr McCutcheon's famous novel triumph.
Miss Davies plays the heroine,
The man had just ridden a horse round the ring, and when making his exit came too close to the cage containing the lions.
Jack Holt, who portrays the an American girl, cousin to the leading role, covers himself with crown prince of a European BOY'S TOY ENGINE EXPLODES. glory, and gives a superb exhibi-kingdom, who, to aid her royal tion of horsemanship. Noah relative, engages in a daring mas
PILLS Beery handles the "bad man" querade, in which, in his
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Mr. George Creyke, pottery man 12-
facturer, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent,
was giving a practical demonstra tion to his son of a toy model of a steam boiler and engine, which he had bought as a Christmas present,
31. Laid by a hen.
87 Royal Navy (abbrev:)
88. By werd of mouth.
40. Summary of articles of religious
belief.
42.A tree of the Pacific.
43. A crow.
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44. Denotes a thirig near. 45. Jointed ports in animals. 47. To brood,
49. Ente (actual).
61,
Church of England (abbrev:) 62 To bo in trouble.
54. Not on.
66. A household, god of divination
(Heb:)
58. A type of curly coated dog (then
raverse it).
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02. Belonging to me (posar adj›);
An irritating sensation in the skin.
68.
64. The
supracaudal plate of a chelonian carapace./
65. Open (postic)," 67. In like 'manner. 68, TS (actual). 89. Ta kindle
18.
On the Ice ride.
21. A leash.
27. To scare away.
29. An unmarried man,
82. Stern,
84; Levantine spirituous liquor.
86. A derisiva smile.
38. A Bower.
41. To stop ar baz.
42. A vetch.
48. Royal Scots (abbrev:)
46. Watery stuff.
48. A hay loft.
30. Out from.
51. The jaws
58. Images.
55. Doomed.
50. Pertaining to chief race in the
Indo Chinese peninsula.
57. Wealthy:
58 "To-do reversed.
62. Plural of "mra." 68. To mix type.
part with hia uaual finesse; Billie uniform, she impersonates him
Competitors are reminded that the prize is to be awarded Dove, charming and lovely, to foll, the plot of a pretender to
for the correct solution, or if nobody succeeds in getting the correct furniands the love interest and the throne Misa Davies's mile
solution, for the NEAREST correct solution. Therefore, even if Douglas Fairbanks, Jun., wins asquerade is perfect. In her when the boller exploded and a you have not done the cross-word puzzle in full, send in what you new laurels with his charactar uniform, the star is almost a piece of metal entered Mr. Croyke's | | have done—it may prove to be the nearest correct solution. isation
double for the Prince of Wales. body. He was seriously injured.
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