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(REUTEK'S AMERICAN SERVICE.}

DALLAS, November 3vil.

In the second round Hagen bent

Manero 11 And 10, Armour Beat

The Open Singles Championship of the Colony for Ladies has reach- Manœuvres of the Atlantic Fleeted the Eual stage and the match to an end after reach will be decided this afternoon en ing a climax of spectacular and the United Services Recreation Harmoi 7 and 8; Turuesi Gent

Club courts, Kowleen.

Klein by one hole Gallett hent realistic torpedo And gunnery attacks in which battleships, battle L and Mrs. S. Grimble, both well at the 37th, Epinosh beat Cooper The competitors are Miss Euid | Beach by, 2 holes, Golden beat Long

cruisers, destroyers, and aeroplanes known locally, Much interes: is

3 and 4. Patra "bat. Guest by 2 were engaged, in torpedo and gun-being centred in the match," nery duels. The final scenes were

holes and. Sarazen beat Dudley 4 teen by Earl Jellicce from Hood.

and 3.

Lord Jellicoe was taken on board in Amazon, which, with Ambus. ende, is the latest type of destroyer, eapable of a speed of thirty-seven knots. He was received with the fellowing greeting from Rerrage, The Flagship of the Fleet:

Atlantic Fleet extends to you a warm welcome and much ap preciates the honour you are do ing them by visiting the Fleet. To this Lord Jellicos replied;

Deeply appreciate your kind signal. It is a very great plea sure to join your fine Fleet. Shortly before midnight there was an encounter between the battle- ships of the 3rd Battle Squadron. From Duke, Marlborough, Emperor

of bulin, and "Benbow, manned by

Miss La. who is the sister of Messers, K. and M. W. L, doubles champions in 1920, is a clever player and will probably score over her opponent by her agility in getting about the court, Mrs. Griable is by far the morg forceful and experienced player, but will find Misi Lo hard to bent,

The winner will meet Mrs. R. E. Tottenham in the Chyllenge Round for the title.

In reaching the Anal Miss Lo heat:-

Miss B. Ellaby. Miss.To

Mrs. Griggor, 63, 64. Mrs. Grimble beat

Mos Cristro, 6-0, 6-0, Mrs. Gull, 6-2, 6-3, Mrs. Miles, 0-3, 6-3,” “

boys who have just left shore train- LEPROSY IN THE EMPIRE. ing ships, and battle cruisers Hood

REPORT.

LONDON, October 12th.

CHESS.

YET ANOTHER DRAW.

[REUTER'S AMEXICAN SERVICE)

..!

Bossos AIRES, Nov. 3rd.. The 3rd game between Alekhine and Capablanca has been drawn,

SENSATION IN THE CRICKET WORLD.

YORKSHIRE APPOINT PRO... FESSIONAL AS THEIR CAPTAIN.

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LONDON, Nov. 2nd.

In the cricket world a sensation

and.

and Reagan, with battleship. REMEDICAL SUBCOMMITTEE'S Frage. The actual encounter was over almost as soon as it had be gun, but slow cruising in the dark- aras feeling cautiously for an un-

At a meeting of the executivë scen enemy furnished some of the of the British Empire Leprosy really tense moments of mimic Association. Sir Leonard Rogers: naval warfare. The battleships of brought up the report of the the 3rd Battle Squadron left an Medical Sub-Committer based on chorage outside Cromarty Firth Oldrieves's recent African has been caused by the action of with navigating lights twinkling four. He disappeared of conipul-Yorkshire County Club appointing faintly overhead. Then as dark-sary segregation of lepers and ad Herbert Sutcliffe county captain. ness closed down all lights were voeated, the treatment of as many Sutcliffe remains a professional. dowsed, and they crept forward as possible of early cases. Sir Lord Hawke, who once said: over A moonless sea faintly Leonard Rogers drew attention to "Pray God that no professional illuminated by Starshine. In the the cheapucas. and effectiveness of may ever captain England," distance a cluster of starshells sodium hydrocarbate, which Dr. who presided at the Leeds meeting, "Hobbs will flickered in the sky, and then there Muir has adopted at Calcutta. The interviewed said: was a flash of a gue to starboard. Association has already distributed laugh and say that I have gone and in a few seconds a shower of 50,000 doses including 35.000 in back on my opinion, but Yorkshire flickering lights threw the entire Alrica.

is a different matter from England." line into strong relief. "A moment It was decided to push the treat; Yorkshire has not had a profes later and the penetrating gleam of ment of leprosy in tropical possessional captain ainee Tom Emmett A searchlight picked out Benbow sions by expenditure on drugs and in 1883, whom Hawke succeeded. at the end of the line and the contributions towards the cost of Sutcliffe is now en ruite to South Afrien with the Marylebone team bombarded with star simple buildings where help was "enemy shells. Immediately after the first urgently required and where per- but it is understood that he knew shot the searchlights found the bat manent leper relief work was being the position and it is unlikely that

he will refure the captainey the cruisers at a distance of 6,000 undertaken. yards looking astonishingly like little leaden toys in the rays of the powerful Engers of light. During the brief encounter sky and sea alike were weirdly alight with quivering starshells, the "stabs of Kun, flashes, and the steady gleam of searchlights. Then Iron Duke, and her sister ships turned north-

It is true, I think, that most iner east, at the same time discharging narry only when they are in love, torpedoes, whose tracks could be and to that extent marry for love. "scen hending directly" towards the It is also true, I think, that most

-girls-marry-with-at least one of The battle was over: Navigation their own eyes, and certainly the Eights were switched on. All that eges of their parents, on the main remained as visible evidence of the

chance. In other words, it is ancounter were a few fares "tum- roughly true that most girls marry bling in the waves, showing where for money. They really have to do the exhausted torpedoes were float- Ing. Until records have been com- pleted and compared it is impos- sible to say which side won the first round. Strategically and tactical-

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THIS IS WHY I MARRIED.

[BY EDWARD CECIL, NOVELIST AND

SOCIOLOGIST)

is there subconsciousness, 'but there is also a complete mind beneath the level of consciousness.

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For

It la, to my thinking, the really important mind, and the only mind which matters in the crises and decisive events of life. instance, the proper way to under stand the well-known phenomenon of conversion is to realise that con- version means conviction, not mere What is it, however, that most en marry for Emphatically itly in the upper mind, but in the

under mind. is not for money, and I submit it

Now, man is divided, as far as reason to think I am anything but the male human being who, in Largely prearranged, but there was

a normal man, I propose to explain his under mind, looks upon weman left open a wide manoeuvring mar- gia. On every ship officers, using exactly and quite frankly why 1

as a chattel, a plaything, a pley- i married. highly

and accurate

sure-doll, a domestic drudge; and, instruments, "recorded the time and In the first place, let me shy.at on the other hand, the male human benting of each manoeuvre, when oney that it was always at the back being who, in his under mind, re- torpedces and starshells were red, of my mind, ever

since I left cognises that as and when searchlights were used. school. that some day I should nothing more or less than an equal By collation and comparison there marry. I can never remember the half of a single whale, the other will be constructed from a body time when I did not think, as I do half of which is a woman.

ly the exercise had, of course, been is never for love. As I have no can understand, into two camps

délicate

happened had everything been real. The naval exercises are thus mere ly a prelude to paper work of much greater value and importance.

Daylight Fight. ` ...

A first-class high-speed battle, in which capital ships, cruisers, And to destroyer flotillas were

crowded into engaged. พย

will think, that an unmarried manget married. is only half a mas

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The

He may have a successful ven- ture, as I have had myself He The half of him which exists in may; on the other hand, have an bachelorhood may be extremely unsuccessful venture. But if he masculine, which is another way has an unsuccessful venture, he is of saying that it may be quite perpetually longing for the success- selfish but the unmarried man can ful venture, and that sréond ven- never be really a full man.

ture should always be possible Those elements of the highest man when the first ventare has proved short morning's exercises. The hood, such as pity, compassion, unsuccessful. light craisers were first engaged by and tenderness, have little chance the main armaments of Hood and, of development, and stand in dan Renown. They were, of course, ger of being completely atrophied hopelessly outgunned, but had the la the life of the unmarried man advantage of mobility, and their

I never could conceive myself as twisting like anakes to escape the going through the whole of life devastating fire of the fifteen-inch unmarried. And, consequently, guns was evidence that they were the first time I fell in love I did exploiting this advantage to the what I felt inclined to do, no mat uttermost. The Fifth and Sixth ter what anybody said-I, married Destroyer Flotillas, under the the girl!

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mother-cruiser. Centaur, then But it was not that I married for

However, whether it be success- ful or unsuccessful, the man who really is a marrying man is never happy in life unless he is married. He cannot live in the unmarried state and yet be satisfied with life.

It is because I humbly submit that I happen to belong to the second type of man that I married. I view with pity those men who tell

me that they never feel, any need

well that many nominally married men are not married at all in any real sense. These men I class also as dwellers in the miserable camp of the bachelors.

launched a high-speed mass tor- love. It was simply because to be married. I know perfectly

Their only weapon olieyed the instinct which was in pedo attack. in self-defence is speed, but they me, at the first opportunity when are the most venturesome and en-all the circumstances, seemed to be terprising spirits in the Navy, and satisfactory. I cannot say that to loved more than any other. deliberately analysed the situation, They buried their noses deep in hut, knowing that I loved and was the sea and at nearly thirty knots loved, and that the object of my raced to the attack, launching their affections was as reputable as she torpedoes at a range of about six was lovely, I immediately sealed. thousand yards.

signed and delivered the document which has made me throughout life, at all events, a man!

I have often said that the book of life da written in two volumes. Volume the first is opened and read before

marriage, Volume the second is never rend except by the It has been a week of valuable

married. Volume the second is the only volume which really matters, instruction, with comparatively small interference by the weather It has always been my profound and I have no use for any human No section of the Fleet has don conviction that the most important beings who have never turned its better work, more completely decisions in life are taken, not in pages Because I hated the justified their training, and do what I may call the ordinary or thought that I might be an unfor monstrated their physical fitness upper mind, but, in what I

that I fell in love.

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PORTS of the MEETING Such is my confession, and I will HONG KONG HANBARD RE of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCTE battle set to work to remove every various phenomena of the subcon- conclude by saying that, happy or trace of it from smoke-grimed gune scious, but it would be tedious to unhappy, the tosin fact is this, for the Bearion 1925. and coal-stained decks. Before he enter into a discussion on how far that unless a man is married he leaves Chamarty Firth Lord Jellicoe any particular actions are con goes through file blind to what life What I means and to what are its oppor- will lunch on board his old flag-scious or subconscious.

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