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DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(November 5.)

Guy Favka Day.

Queen's hontre Heaven.

Harmony

World Theatre: The Peach Girl" (Chinese picture).

Star Theatro Harmony at Home."

Central Theatre's So Thin In Paradise" (Chinese film).

King's Theatro The Seas Benoath.

The Man

Majestic Theatres

Love."

Ton Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dance at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel

Peninsula Hotel, Rose Room, Les Dejohana et William Rimels.

via

China Exhibition, City Hall, 3 p.m. till 10 p.m.

European Mail:-Europe Suez (Rajputana),

Tides:High at 3,34 and

Low at 11.45 and 18"

FRIDAY

(November 0.)

7.2;

"China" Exhibition, City Hall, 2pm till 10 p.m.

E alecting of The United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ltd.. 3 pm.

Queen's Theatres "Harmony Heaven.

World Theatre: Putting On The

THE FIRE RANG

TOWER.

LONELY OUTPOSTS IN THE VAST CANADIAN TIMBER LANDS.

HOW CANADA GUARDS ONE OF HER MOST VALUABLE POSSESSIONS.

"Your message can be taken other, and all linked with the cen from the Fire Rangars said the tre, by telephone. One ranger telephone girl to me at Elk Lake, would be stationed at his tower for on the edge of the bush country two months or more at a time: where I was trying to communicate with someone in camp in the woods, writes Elizabeth Bolloc in the Lon don News Chronicle

The Fire Hangers! Here we a

"And if you get bored up here," said my brother, You can always your sweetheart in Haileybury. have a pleasant telephone chat with

wonderful new word, the key-word," But no. That diversion was not perhaps to those vast tracts of permitted; though there were other woodland which stretch in beauty interests that presented them. and lonelinear for 800 miles north-selves. Only, the day before the ward through Ontario to the Bar Fire Hanger had watched for n "ren: Lands and the Palak ioni whole hour through his powerful I did not ace and telephone glasses a gigantic moose standing in the wild Intelligible hu- the lake: below system linking up point ifter point knee-deepabong the lily-pads in whnvoice milenco of Nature

words, sort of itrantee of eguint the endosa threat safety of Nattison Fpictured a now Taco of Wagnerian belags, "atern- ally vigilant against are them selven possessed of mine, sort of

And he had half tamed a fox whces den was hear his own, log hut on an island in the lake, safe from fire.

'Wd looked down upon the. mighty sweep of the forest below, league upon league of spruce and

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light green about shapes of the lakes, where for as far as the eye could follow, and much further, there was hardly a house on a road; only the wild animals and occasional prospectora making their way through the lakes and creeks in their canoes.

A Towar That Singa. This fantastic picture proved not altogether inaccurate. When three Ritz

days later my brother and I cross Star Theatre Taming of Theeda inke in the wilderness to visit Shrow"

a Fire-Ranger in his tower. The King's Theatre: "The Seas hills in the backwoods are not | A double fate of loneliness had Beneath.

Central Theatre: "Én This Is Paradise."

Majcatic Theatre: Animal Crackers"

lifted this man op above the wilder- ness into the even lonelier wilder- aess of the upper air.

high, two or three hundred feet at mest on the summit of one of these stood the tower, niety feet of slender steel bars, tapering towards. when the wooden shelter the top shout it. While the wind rocked

miniature Eifel Tower, one of tho

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel Dinnermany which keep watch over the Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and foresta, of the north. “ Peninsula Hotel.

Tides:-High at 5.25 and 7.26; Low at 12.30.

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SATURDAY..!

(November 7.) Charity Fair at Italian Convent, Caine Road, from 10a.m. tell a "China" Exhibition, City Hall, 3.p.m. till 10 p...

Athletics: South China. Annual Sports at Caroline Hill..

Cricket:--First Division Civil Service Indian R.C.; University r. R.A.; Second Division: I.R.C. South Wales Borderers (L.), Police Recreation Club r. Civil Service, Kowloon Argylls, Navy Craigengower.

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Golf Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Captain's Cup..

Lawn Bowls: Spey Royal Cup Final: Kowloon Dock Craigen- Cricket Club, Kowloon gower Cricket Club groen, 3.p.m.

Racing: Eleventh Extra Racing Meeting (Happy Valley)

Queen's Theatre; "Harmony Heaven.

World Theatre; "Putting On The Ritz."

Star Theatre Taming of The Shrew."

King's Theatre: The Secret

Call"

But he did not seem to worry

the tower, and the steel-sang and shook beneath us, he showed us very cheerfully the black stain on the woodwork where lightning had struck the tower a few months earlier.

-those

The wind wha racing out of the south, and in its strong continual guste the tower was shaking and swinging, 'tho' "thin · steel ladder vibrating like a live thing and Target of the Lightning. with every step up of my nail-

protect You can't studded Alpine boots, the noise of tower answer with a high, sharp When a thunderstorm begins, down, steel upon steel made the whole towers" he said, "they act as lightning conductors themselves. singing note, birdlike and aerial. we have to come at once. The man With the dropping sense of space upon every side it was like climb who was here then had got down. ing a ladder of the winds, a tower to six rungs off the ground when the lightning struck the tower, and built out of the very air italf

Through the trap-door above, the the shock of it flang him off the Fire-Ranger looked down, his yel Indder te the ground. He was lucky. low hair blown back from his face to have got so far down." like a flame.

Lighthouse of the Forest, Ones up there, we found our selves in a little six-walled shelter, the floor 5ft across, the walls all windows, and the Fire Banger told, us how he spent nine hours a day there on the look-out for forest, fires....

At the first sign of distant smoke it was his job to telephone to the district centre, miles and miles away, and in the shortest time possible neroplanes would be bring ing pumps and hoses and axou to the spot, and every able bodied man wild be conscripted to fight the fire.

There are many such towers is the backwoods, all linked with each

He had one more story to tell unj about some wolves which had come round him when he was alone in camp in the forest in the winter. and how he bad driven them "off with a gasolino flare,

I liked to think of the man whose life was vowed with Stylites-like davation to the destruction of fire having sudden recourse to fire itself to save him: @

It was time to go, so we left the Firo-Ranger to the company of his map, his Geld-glasses, his telephone. From the top of his ringing, sing ing tower of terror he watched us. go step by step down that naked ladder of the winds, his face peer- ing eagerly through the trap door, his yellow hair still blown back

flame.! ward by the wind, like

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