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The "S.P.CA. in co-operation with the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Associatioris have organized annual prize essay competitions for

the Troops in each Association. The subject is chosen for each As sociation, And

each Troop is eligible to enter. The rules contain provision that cach Troop must work up the subject and delegate one of the number to write the essay on the information thus ob tained. The prize was awarded to Douglas Hunt of the 5th Troop. The essay submitted by Murphy of the 1st Hong Kong Sen Scouts was also good and it is hoped that next year & greater number of entries will be received. Phyllis Anderson of the 2nd "Kowloon Company was awarded the prize for the Girl Guides.

Sir Henry Pollock very kindly presented a challenge cup for the Boy Scouts Competition and the Society has presented a challenge eup for the Girl Guides.

The Prize Essay. Douglas Hunt age 13 of the 5th Troop makes the following obser- vations in the course of Eis essay which won the prize:

The Sixth Scout Law states that **& Scout is a friend to Animals" | With this, in mind we set out one morning on a hike, starting from Happy Valley going through the City to Aberdeen to see how it fared with the birds and beasts on our island.

In the Valley wagtails were plentiful and sparrows were Food clearly much in evidence. must be plentiful and easy to get. This is probably due to the Govern ment's wise policy of conserving the

local trees.

Wanchai Market is very damp. The roof being low, very little sun- light reaches into the interior. The method of killing poultry as seen here is strongly to be condemned. On a level with the Sennen's Institute is a shop in Queen's Road East selling snakes, turtles, armadillos and the like. We did not see any slaughtered but heard that a snake is killed in a very cruel way. Nothing was seen BX-

few cate until cept a

we reached Central Market. Here the work of the S.P.C.A. was inest in evidence.

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Hong Kong Observatory, Oct. zlat.

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Highest open-air Temperature, 20th: 77 Lowest open-air Temperature, 21st:7

B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy; D- " Drizzle ; F-Fog; L-Lightning; M Mia; 0 Overenst; P=Passing showers; Q-Squalls; R-Rain; T Thunder.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE,

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THE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, OCTOBER 22nd, 1928.

THE AQUATIC CHAM-

PIONSHIPS.

C. J. COOKE DISTINGUISHES

to

HIMSELF.

LONG PLUNGE RECORD.

The Annual Aquatic Champion- ships of the Colony were brought very successful conclusion during the week-end when many interesting results were registered. No less than nine events were de cided, of which air were on Satur. day.

"On both days C. J. Cooke distin guished himself. He shows no sign of losing form and despite years he continues to improve, to the In the 410 yards Championship on admiration of the sporting public. Saturday, be not only proved him. self the outstanding swimmer, but equalled the record time of 5 mins.

4.

FIGHTING MEN AT SEA.

"

I-THE LURE OF PRIZE- MONEY.

JI

A FACTOR OF HISTORY.

Among the last business of the House of Commons before Par liament was prorogued was the passing of the Naval Prize Bill. This is an Act to make provision for winding up the Naval Prize Fund and the dissolution of the tribunal established under the Naval Prize Act of 1915. The Hou. Sir John Fortescue, writing in the Timer, saga:

unconnected with the state of his purse. Tho general, who accom panied him with a small body of troops, was doubtless equally keen, whatever the state, of his finances; but the immediate result was the detachment of ships from Rodney's fleet to carry home the plunder and the weakening of England's naval force in those waters. A few months later the French feet, ap pearing the American coast in over- whelming superiority, led to the surrender of Cornwallis at York- town and to the loss of the Ameri- can Colonies,

Playing The Pirate;

tion and Empire the lust, of prize-

In the war of the French Revolu money became even more marked add, since the Army was employed for years upon unprofitable opera tions, whereas the Navy was every where triumphant over the de- moralized French feet; Ministers were inclined to lend too willing an ear to naval advisers." They attempts upon Ferrol and Cadix in urged, at the bidding of the Navy, 1800, and were furious when the generals, who knew their business, declined to have anything to da with either. Yet the principal ob

Mediterranean

I have often thought that, an interesting book might be written upon history. We think of prize about the influence of prize-money money generally as a naval affair; but the fighting man, whether afoat ashore, had originally but 10 sece. set up by D. Lyow in 1924. Fene idea when he went to war He is to be congratulated on his namely, to make something out ofject of both adventures was prize- fine performance.

Yesterday he fit.

Prize-money is only another money. In the established a new record for the name for plunder, and we hear naval commanders were always call-

ng plunge-67 feet.

more of it in the Navy because ning upon generals to aid them in enptured vessel bad

some unsound operation which pro- mised lucre, and were very angry In the 440 yards Championship brought into a court of law to only C. Cooke, L. R. Pereira Le condemned before the captors indeed when the generals declined to participate in them. St. Vincent and D. Lyon took part. The could share in the value of her.

and Nelson were as bad as any. If. Portuguese swimmer

har But there was plenty both of plun- shown up very well this year, had dering and, of prize-money in the there were two men in the Navy the lead for the first ten lengths, Army too, though in every well and the Army who cordially admir- but Cooke, who had been keeping that all pillage should be thrown rice they were Admiral Lord St. regulated force it was ordained ed each other and each other's ser- close behind, displaced him, and as the race progressed Cooke, gradual into a common stock, placed under ly increased his lead, eventually the care of prize-agents, and equit

good distance ably divided.

The Events..

who.

winning by Pereira came second and Lyon third.

Ladies Championship. Miss. George proved too good for her competitors and won the cham the ethers being Miss D. George, pionship easily. Four teck part, Mise Hunt and Miss Doris Hunt,

High Dive.

A fine performance was given by Igglesden and E. A. dd Roza

the atter winning who were the only two competitora,

to be

In more primitive days the sailor sometimes had the advantage, In remote seas he might, although he bore the King's commission, play very much the part of a pirate, as indeed in the 17th century he some- times did in Caribbean waters. A soldier rarely had such a chance. might possibly in some obscure part of India find an opportunity of naing his disciplined. men banditti or hiring them out As mercenaries; but this was not a very safe game. In the 16th centuyr the British soldier drank hard and was indiscreet in his cups; and his re- velations might have led to unplea Bant consequences. Let no man de- claim against the lawlessness and cupidity of sailors and soldiers herein. Their life, especially the The results of the two days' sailor's, was very hard; they were

kept under very meeting follow:-..

taut discipline; and, above all, their wages were not régularly paid.

In the Team Race the Victoria Recreation Clubs had a

over. Yesterday the Long Plunge and Throwing the Water Polo Bali were decided.

THE RESULTS.

SATURDAY.

440 Yards Championship-1, C. J. Cooke, 5 mins, 49 secs.; 2, L R. Pereira, 5 mins. 55 secs. ; 3, D. Lyon..

ket can be expected to he and there was no outstanding cases of over- 100 Yards Ladies' Champion crowding except in the case of a ship, Alias George, 91.15 secs. heron which was kept in a cage, Miss D. Hunt; '93.9-5 secs. much too low for it. We went to three birdshopa in the vicinity. These also have improved a tremen- dous lot during the last two years.

The essayist suggests the value of handbills printed in Chinese with advice and comments on the follow- ing subjects:--

(a) How to give, gond care and

treatment.

100 Yards Boys Championship (under 13): 1st Heat: J. Amery. 65.3-3 secs.; F. Stirling, 2nd Heat: 1, R. Wood, 65-2-5 secs.; 2, A. Dalziel Final: J. Amery, 72.1-3 seca.; F. Stirling, 84.1-5 secs

High Dive Championship:-S. D. Igglesden, 84 points; E. A. da Roza, 74 points.

150 Yards Handicap:-H. M. Remedios, recs, imm 54.1-5 secs.; W. Foraita, recs. 93, 1 min. 55.25 sces; J. R. Johnstone, ser.,

(b) The cruelty of causing un-

necessary pain. (e) That causing pain is rank cul-

lousness and could be diamin. 41 secs. pensed with without loss to the man himself. (d) That animais an feel as well

* Ine.

Team Race:-D. Lyon, J. R. Johnstone, S. Gitting, R. Pereira, C. J. Cooke, W. F. Kerr,

SUNDAY.

(e) That hurting animals impairs

the hurter's refinement and Long Plunge -1, C. J. Cooke, consideration (this is im-67 feet; Cornwall Chiu, 64 ft. portant as Chinese consider 3. in; 3. Ke Yen Cheung, 30 ft. themselves refined and con- 10 in. siderate).

An Interior Mortal. Prize-mouey I believe to have been at the root of the ill-feeling which, now happily dead, so long existed between Navy and Army. They ought to have been good friends, for originally the fighting sailor was simply a soldier placed on board ship,

with

sailing-master-

Vincent and General Sir Charles Stuart. Yet Stuart, a very able

man, only prevailed by great fores

of character to avers foolish enter

prises of the fleet for the sake of prize money. Commenting on. Nel- son's abortive attack on Santa Cruz

the action which cost Nelson his right arm-in 1797, Stuart wrote:-

My friend Lord St. Vincent has been playing the pirate, and my brave man have suffered for it; this thirst for wealth in the Navy and the bad consequences that will fol low will in the end reduce the first Navy in the world to a wretched herd of formidable pirates. May Heaven avert it.".

officers allowed prize-money to

in

Heaven did not wholly avert it. To the very end of the war naval

govern their operations deal too much, and to tempt them great to ventures which should have been shared by the Army. Thus in 1804 Duckworth slipped away from the general who was his partner, to try to take Curacoa with his ships alone, and was ignominiously re pulsed. At Mauritius

1810 the naval captains no sooner heard that a military expedition was on its way to the island, than they must needs strive to take it them selves before the soldiers came. The result was the loss of three ships and, temporarily, of the command of the sea in that quarter, with consequences which might have been most serious, but which were lucki-

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The worst offender was Admiral first duty to man the fleet. Yet Cochrane, who occupied the island blue-jackets and red-coats were al of Mariegalante, in the Wes: ways" at logger-heads. Cromwell Indies, with marines, principally sa filibustering expedition to for his own profit, and then called San Domingo in 1685 to replenish upon the general for soldiers to his empty Treasury. Three parties take their place on board ship. divided the command; the Commis-"There is a thing called prize sioners of the Treasury, the afloat," wrote the general; "search- Admiral, and the General. ing. for it on shore tends to WHAT SHALL WE DANCE? achieved something in ballroom gyn- When they reached their objec different signification, though both

nastics. Yet to be fair to the dance tive the admiral was for run. words begin with P." It was this

and its well-known inventor, it has ping in at once and taking the town same Cochrane (not Dundonald) THREE NEW DANCES.

an extremely agreeable lilt, and I by surprise. The commissioners who committed British troops to

have no doubt that its tangoesque objected because in that case the the disastrous attack ол New It is an open secret that nobody favour will commend it to lovers of soldiers would get all the plunder. Orleans in 1814, to the fury of the knows what we are going to dance the I-hear-you-calling-me type of Thereupon there was nearly A unfortunate General in command, this acason, says Mr. Ernest Betts dance, But it looks just a trifle in a London paper. At least, only difficult to acquire, to one whose Throwing the Water Polo Ball:matiny among the troops, who all for the sake of prize-money.

made their attack on another plan (f) That animals are only fierce, D. Lyon, 69 ft. 6 in... 2, Pte.

I have written here mainly of three people know-and they are senses promptly leave him at the in self defenec but not other Hogers, 59 ft. 6 in.

and were disgracefully routed. The the Navy, which, being less under the inventors of the three sex suggestion of unfamiliar motion. town alone; but the commissioners chances of gathering plunder. But Admiral then offered to take the control in old days, had better dances which we are going to dance wise.

The Polka Trot. this season. Otherwise the whole and general would not hear of it; prize money counted for very much

I turn on my right heel to the and thus all three parties were by in the Army also; and we all re-

rolutely confidential: the cars, and nothing was done,

is still holding the floor?) Its inven- member how Wellington's troops But within recent years a great tür thinks that as there is really In 1803 there was another expedi- passed out of all control after the discovery about dancing bas been nothing new under the chandelier tion under the joint direction of storm of a town. Every Indian made, which I now reveal for the we must embody dead yesterday a commissary representing the campaign was hailed by officers and first time. It is the fact that of with to-morrow.

He seeks Treasury, and two commanders of men as a chance of making money. all things in the gallery of human mingle old-world charm and new- fleet and army. On this occasion though more than once generals invention the hardest to invent is world vitality, but these stamping- the general and admiral conspired abjured their share of the prize a ballroom dance." This was left out cum-Charleston tactics bat dubiously to paralyse the commissary by con- for themselves and threw it into in the calculation of Paracelsus, conform to the prescription. A new fuing him on a small vessel under the common stock. In the Indian Newton. Einstein, and other pur dance is not so simple as all that. custody of a sergeant's guard. On Mutiny, when every mutineer had veyors of gravity and merriment.

Of that sweet extraction, the a third expedition commodore and plundered and was worth plunder- commissary took sides against the ing, the discipline and tone of the

The Ecstasy Glide.

Sugar Step, we have already heard. This, the simplest of all the new

(g) That animals can respond to kindness and gentleness"

(h) That harmful animals are, only so from nature and if well treated could easily be better.

These could be distributed to animal keepers and posted up in prominent places.

Other suggestions are:-

officers

of

(1) To appoint senior Scout and

Scouters

the S.P.C.A. (2) To advertise and increase the

members of the Society.

kindness to animals taught in school.

Other Observations.

M. H. Murphy, age 10, of the 1st Hong Kong Sea Scouts, makes the following observations:

Consolation Race (100 yards) I, W. F. Kerr, 69.3-5 secs.;

Branch; 3, Rogers.

BIG CUSTOMS SWINDLE.

5730 FINE PAID IN NOTES.

Jean Jacques Forme, a French man, described as a traveller, was charged at Westminster, London, with fraudulent evasion of Customs

That there is considerable need of drinking troughs for dogs, gut- At an hotel in Oxford, Street, ter water is often diseased and is where Forme was staying, Customs

means of profit.

thing is terribly hush-hush and ab-

How are we to take the floor with

Polka Trot. (My left toe, you see,

to

(3) To appoint more Inspectors ut Victoria Station in respect of general. First, they inveigled him troops were very seriously injured this paucity of danceable matter dances, is the least commendablo and (4) to get the need for 33 silk robes, value £215. He plead: nshore at Madeira and tried to by the thirst for wealth. The truth Take the latest tit-bit from America, far vigour. A dance is not a prize-

ed guilty.

leave him behind; and, this plan is that men never quite lose their catalogued under the new season's fight, but neither is it a knitting Prosecuting for the Customs, Mr. having failed, the commissary, who AR Pierson said it was found was in control of all supplies and primitive habit of treating war goods.

less as a matter of glory than as a

It is called the Ecstasy contest.. The Sugar Step is a gentle Glide. that for a considerable time pastatores, wrecked the general's plans

To perform the Ecstasy and well-bred affair that zig-zags Form: had been selling French by declining to land any of them.

Glide you get into your oldest across the ballroom to a slow tune. model dresses in the West End for Thua three enterprises were brought

clothes, ward the people in the flat The 'partners move with short steps" which no trace of duty payment to ruin iniply by jealousy "over

below, and taking a few steps from the modern tendency in footwork, prize-money. could be found.

Wo Jackie Coogan, the famous the tango mix them up with a figure so as to economise in space. In the 18th century the long boy filmstar who was "dis or two from the Highland Schottis shall bear more of the Sugar Step i£ peace which followed after the ex- covered" by Mr. Charles Chaplin che. Hal-a-guinea a. lesson. In the music is forthcoming. a danger to the owner as well as officers took possession of several haustion of Marlborough's wars at the age of five, and who is now America, they say, ecstasy is boom.

The Charleston Lancers, the animal.

large trunk containing goods on was broken firat by the expedition aged 14, will appear in a sketching. Over here, dear boy, it would

In a different category altogether Some of the animal and bird which he admitted no duty bad to Carthagena in 1741. The ghast with his father at the Palladium, he shockin' bad form.

Hiy shops in Des Vaux Road are verit been paid. Investigation disclosedly story has been told by Tobias London, during November.

Now I come to the Anglo-Saxon is the Charleston Lancers, in which, able "Black Holes, of Calcutta," a ruse which had enabled the pro- Smollett. There were furious quar salary will be about £700 a week contribution. A little while ago I after a few steps of modified Char- leston, the partners leave each An inspector should be appoint-perty to be got away from Vic rela between the two services, and Mr. John H. Coogan, "Jackie's" examined the credentials of the other and bark in the courdly dalli It has five movement, ance of grand chains and visiting ed to patrol the Praya "West. toris without the usual scrutiny, the adventure was finally brought father, was himself a well-known Tile-trot.

The Dairy Farm arrangements and that the frauds had been sys to an end by the death of nearly

**vaudeville "comedian before his as follows: 1, the Prowl, and or-

I am all in favour of are above reproach.

tematically carried on for a long all the soldiers and a great many little son was chosen by Chaplin to dinary walk in slow two-four time rounds, causing much interest and amuse-year.

A fight between two larks was time, at any rate for more than a of the sailors engaged therein. But play the title-part in The Kid." performed very softly with your leaving your partner, especially if the whole project had been planned Upon this performance-though he shoulders as rigid as an oak; 2, the she is in a huff because you said ment in a Chinese tea-shop on the Mr. Sandbach said it was quite by Admiral Vernon with a view to appeared in many popular films, Skid, which looks hideous in slow the wrong thing about the frock she Fraya.

evident that systematic swindling prize-money, and his interest in the such as The Rag Man," Oliver motion but improves on acquaint- wearing. But in any case, there Robinson Ance and is half-slow and balf-quick; is an immense pleasure in suddenly A donkey being mercilessly of the Government had long been success of the operations did not Twist," and "Little beaten suggested an organisation | going on, and that they had been go beyond that. His complaint Crusoe ""Jackie" has never im 2, the Capes, executed on a quarter going about with two feet instead established among the Boy Scouts defrauded of large sums of money. against the soldiers was that they proved. Mr. Coogan and Jackie " raverse turn and imparting a for- of four, of Hong Kong run on similar lines Taking in account the forfeiture of were unwilling to take risks; and' have already appeared together on wards-and-sideways away to the The Charleston Lancers suggests a to that practised in England. A the goods, he imposed a fine of to the very end of the 18th century the music-hall stage in America. movement; 4, the Double Caper, new idea for these days, which ought compaign under the name of Boy 2750 or three months' imprison we find the spirit of pillage atrong Mr. Coogan invested, largely in real bringing the dancer well up on the to be developed, Scouts Donkey Protection Brigade meat. As there were evidently in the Navy. Rodney was a fine estate, the enormous sums earned toes and giving his legs a somewhat Eor the rest, the formula is the would certainly minimize the suffer people of substance behind, prob sailor but always out at elbows; by his son's popularity-calculated rough crossing; and 6, the Natural name-Quick-step: Blow Fox-trot, ings that these poor animals have ably they would pay the fine.

Waltz, and Blues-with kind per- and his capture of St. Eustatin, at £300,000 four years ago--so that Turn. * 50 * 25 to endure merely because they are The fine was immediately paid in where the booty was valued at thresJackie is probably a millionaire By now you have trotted all the mission from our overlords, the

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