1914-06-10 — Page 5

COLIN BELL A WHITE

HOPE?.

'Australian.v. Arab.

BULLET-PROOF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, {[WEINESDAY, JUNE 10,-) 1914)

AEROPLANES.

A French Army' Davice.

THE BOY SCOUTS.

Exacting Tasks Cheerfully Done

Doing good turns spconling to r- It is announced that Bombar- For some time, past experiechedule in ather An-lexacting dier Wells and Colin Bell have ments have been made by the proposition. But when the Boy arranged & contect for a purse of French authorities with armoured Scout comes into the braidons if £2,000 £1,200 to go to the aeroplanes, and these have met is altogether different. He is the winner and £800 to the loser. with a certain measure of ancoses, bandyman par excellence of our The fight will take place some The vulnerable parts of the Dow and, wonderful age. He is time between June 15 and June chanism, which are situated in scarcely out of the toddling age 30.

the front part of the body, and and into knickers when he enliste When Bell mot Jeannette at the pilot's rest are enclosed in a into the great army of Good Premierland on May 8 the sheet of three millimetre chrome. Deeds and becomes a pacifo atmosphere was electrical Why, nickel steel, which is proof poldier with a serious and non- it would he hard to say, for on a against rifle fire at ranges greater bloodthirsty series of duties to liberal estimate not ten per cent, than 2,500ft. An armoured aero-perform. How well he does them, of the vast crowd which came plane of this description possesses how smartly and ostentatiously along expected the contest to last, the advantage of being capable he sets about playing the great at the outside, more than five of navigating salely over hostile game is an amazing tribute to the rounds. And at the expiration positions at comparatively low system founded by that wise and of that time Jeannette would be altitudes, and thereby affords wily Scout known and honoured on top. A truly cosmopolitan much better opportunities for by boys all over the civilized assemblage grond the building, observation than an unprotected world-B. P.

A Tame Opening

to do good turne. For the time being the whole of this great institution of willing warriors was turned into a sort of Employment Bureau, at the beck, and call of

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which on Saturday night is filled craft, which has to maintain an And this week-end, says the by s quite different strata of altitude of 5,000ft or more to be Daily News of May 4, he has society. Lord Hibblesdale was a reasonably safe against modern turned his facile hand with great vigour, and with absolutely no conspicuous figure at the ring-rifle fire. side, and officers of the Guards On the other hand, the weight" wank" in it, to the pleasurable and other gentlemen were as of the protective armour conati task of helping everybody or any plentiful as mulberries in tates a serious drawback to its body for the benefit of Mr. Pear- Autumn.

use, for the armour-plating of an son's far-reaching campaign in aeroplane ia, roughly, equivalent aid of the blind. In London and Jeannette opened the ball with to the weight of a passenger. the country on Saturday 200,000 a couple of tentative lefts for the For this reason, many exports Boy Scouts not out with the bead, which Bell blocked, and, prefer to trust for safety rather to heartiness of all that is gallant stepping in, punched Jeannette the natural flying qualities of the sad obliging in young manhood on the mouth. A clinch followed, neroplane, to its speed and capa- Joe trying the loop the loop city for quick climbing. punch to no purpose. Bell's left! There are several instances on hit for the face appeared a feable record of aviators having been thing, carrying nothing like the struck, and even killed, by rille- vigour and sting one would ex-bullets in modern warfare. Two the rich, the indolent, or the pect from such a splendidly built pilots were thus killed during the india ont. man. But that same left event-Balkan War, while, during the nally proved to be a weapon recent operations in Morocco, an which encouraged wholesome seroplane carrying two Spanish of St. Agatha's, surrounded by a respect in the bronzed boxer's officers was repeatedly struck by group of. Bes Scouts, took up a mind long ere finality had been the Moorish marksmen, both ou pitch in the Strand and blacked FRESH reached. The times it reached oupants were seriously wounded, the boots of many theorical cele Joe's face, if not with any great and, though the pilot succeeded Lang and Miss Ellaline Terriss brities, including Mr. Matheson amount of fores, brought the in bringing the machine safely all for the soud of the blind: Boy ectators to their feet with a back to the bass, he subsequently Scouts, took the places of the ng.continued howl of execration succumbed to his injuries. regular Waiters at the Metropole,

the end of the bout; when the

aad 52 little handy lads were sp referee, awarded Jeanette the verdict.

that thoan who had keered welcomed by the diners that not

In fact, throughout the long Much clinching marked the first him on in sympathy, thinking one party objected to the amatear few rounds, although the referee he had no anos, changed service being substituted for the sunny day all was amiability and good fellowship. The tall white was in the ring from the krst bell. the ne encouragement regular waiters.

The whole business was proper-pole of the Boy Scout, ad- Bell was very cautions, and im- ♬ sney realised that here was a pressed with the importano of rarely possible victory of a white ly organised in townsend districts, venturing on his day's tour of the occasion and evidently unxions over the all-conquering black if you wanted an odd jgh dòng, good deeds was accented by to remove any bad impresior Joe was even reduced to the no matter where you were or everybody na slsymbolerartist conveyed by the result of his con- expedient of smiling and nodding what the job happened to be lord and charitable

10 a spectator in the endeavour to from a tarn at the mangle to a cleared the way through the distract Bell's earnest attention problem in higher mathematica-press even as the peaceful exes But to go back to the fight, from the business in hand, but all you bed to do was to com. of the lictore cleared the way on Up to the sixth round Bill had Colin was too long a sparring municate with the secretary of festival days in ancient Rome. Was there a Dragon to be been feeling his way very cau- painer of Sam Langford's, and the nearest troop and presently tiously, and the black fellow had didinot battle over 16 rounds with the mangler or the mathematician clain in the deep forest of some

Camberwoll back garden? * not go beyond the threatening McVea without learning quite was at the door.

As to the matter of remunera-lost cst to be tracked from Poplar age. The impression which lot of the wiles the blacks use in leapt most nimbly to the mind the subjugation of the white lion well, that would be left to to Paddington ?an ancient was that Jeannette held moet of brethren. By the end of the 18th you. There was no trade union dams to be piloted across the the trumps, and was not inclined round victory for Bell looked to be rate of wagen, no fixed-rate or road through the hoot and the motor to play them until he thought the assured, and the impression, was no sliding pole for Saturday's turmoil of fipice

lawn to LSA fit and proper time had come heightened when towards the end glad serviceal. You were simply buses garden

However, as time wore on, and of that round he smashed home asked to be good enough to re-rolled an omelette to be cooke round after round was reeled off, right to Joe's jaw in a fierce rally member that what was done was ed ? The Man was at hand for Food references essential. Apply it became obvious that Jos was which sent the latter's knees being done for the blind, and all the business. He would alry the not nearly as comfortably placed wobbling like a jelly fresh from the money received would be Dragon shearfully, and at leas sa he thought. His best cards the mould. A quicker thinking handed to the National Institute were tramped by the Australian boxer would have seized the op-in Great Portland-street. one after the other.

-test with Curr812.

Bell Begins to Wake Up,

"to

portunity to jump in and attempt Joe's Ace is Trumped. a grand climax, but not so Bell, Joe's ace, a well-timed upper- who foolishly retreated, with Joe cut, got home the first time, sad in pursuit, that wily old general a hurt some too, for Bell was seen quickly falling to the mistake the

to break ground in a hurry as enemy had tumbled into.

below stairs.

S

An Airing for the Twins. Some were exacting; tae brave young Scout was bidden to wheel perambulator laden with twins for two hours in Battersea Park. Though the twins were a rare

This

I

The 'Dragon ¿Blain.

than cost price; not only that, bat with the marks of battle still fresh on his valorous brow ho would call and report at head- quarters."

“Dragon slain, vir, at 12.45

a.m.!"

"Vory well," -anye the Scout

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in a

faces

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though he had a pressing appoint Joe was still feeling the effects handful, he survived, and return master, Here's your next job." ment to keep elsewhere. But of that punch when he started the ed the que son cople to the He hande the Boy & note from an THE Steamship afterwards the Australian saw to seventeenth round but disguised parents with a courtly smile. He agonised householder it that his strong right arm was it by force looks and threatening received a shilling and a heart neighbouring street interposed, between his opponent's attitudes. He advanced towards cake for his good services. The Kindly send a reliable Scout to having arrived, Consignees of glove and the slumbrous point. his opponent breathing de ahilling he reserved for the Fund No He also backed up a whole lot fiance, and made as though to the heart cake he gave. But no!

Paradise Street to make in response to the cries of follow-attack viciously. Bell at once, re- We must say no more, cornstalks and began to shoot an treated. However, Jeannette ra- little business of the heart cake to amuse baby teething. Mrs.

the hero

Jones. Boy Scout-

at their risk into the hazardous accurate loft jab to Joe's mouth, ther overdid it by getting too close,WA

And so, in a breath, the noble and/or extra hazardous Godowns which disturbed the symmetry of forcing Colin to hit back. ton nursemaid's own private act of his lips. Jeannette's left he he did with a will, cing Joe to charity, that good turn which knight is transformed from a of the Hongkong and Kowloon trested with something akin to the ropes. The eighteenth round every real: Scout in pledged to do spifflicator of enlphouresas Wharf and Codown Company, disdain, stepping back from it or wasatlar, with the exception at least once a day And he did it, dragons into a capering: nursery Limited, Kowloon, and West boring in to hook's hard that the black smaabed a hard though he was ravenously hungry toy. He grine. The suffering Point Godowns, whence delivery

babe is pacified; and there is may be obtained. right to the ribs and hooking up after his perambulator parado,

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