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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, 9th. AUGUST, 1924.

ON THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER. Some Advantages-of-this

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Safe Route

QUEBEC CITY FROM LEVIS ACHOSE THE ST. LAVYRANCE

FATHER POINT

'LIGHT

"GUARDIANS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE IN WINTER CHUQYEDS, QUEBEC

There is no doubt that the St. Lawronte River from Montreal to the sea is one of the best light- eil waterways in the world, if not the finest, wluta it is provided with an abundance of nids to navigation which makes it poss sible for ships to travel day or night the whole distance with perfect safety, remarked veteran seu capiāžu recently, now Each your finds an lerousing steamship companies whose ships retired. He had been comparing sumber of European-hound use Montreal and Quebec as poris. the state of river twenty years travellers using the St. Lawrence are putling into servico ovory ago with to-day. Years ago all route. The chief reason for its available vessel on their rogistors. quido lights along the river were popularity has been the fact that The Canadian Pacific Steamships, of the fixed type with nothing it permits two days of travel on Ltd., alone has 96 arrivals and to distinguish them from the the rivor, a smooth, interesting departures of linors via the St. tights of an occasional farmhouse, voyage and cut the open-sou Lawrence, scheduled. This com- To-day, each signal light has a period on the "Empress ships pany's truns-Pacific liners have distinctive character which is to four days.

already brought a number of Known to river navigators.

Now ships are constantly hoing London-bound tourists from the Another modern aid to naviga- added to the floots that sail the Orient to tion is the exenilent Hystont of St. Lawrence. The present sea they are transported by fast Vancouver, whence

government wireless stations son will witness an unprecedent trains to Montreal and on to along the river. These are an ed Bumbor, of Ballings as trans-Atlantic vossols, thus mak- invaluable protective amo "in" va many porнods desire to ing the half-round-the-world trip providing shore communication visit the British Empiro Ex- ontirely by Canadian Pacific in case of anergencies.

hibition .and the various service.

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SPORTS PARS.

Interesting World "llems.

South African tennis, poopia want Mile. Longlen to visit them.

Leeds United, who will be in the First Division of the English Loague next season, have not spent more than £500 on transfor feos in a fow weeks. This is the fourth season of the club's oxistence.

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Thero -in-gain--talk-of a fight between Dompsey and Wills, and the suggested date is September 6, at Jersey City.

Georgo Parkor, the Eccleshill and S. African fast bowler, is an famatour. Eccleshill, by the way,

is wholly an amstour team.

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Manchester City Football Club. mada a profit on their first season at their new ground, Maine-road, of £4,097.

J. A. Hickling, who wou the quarter-mile championship of the N.C.U. (Berks, Oxon, and South Buoka Contre) át Roading ra- cantly can now claim to have won every championship support- ed by the centre.

Famous golfers owe much to their caddies. If proof wore needed it is available, for Waltor Hagon, the British open cham bion, has lakon with him to France the caddle who want round with him during his lost. two visits to England.

THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE.

Diesel Engines for Shipping Board Vessels.

THE FREIGHTER KAYSEEKA SOON TO BE EQUIPPED WITH DIESEL ENGINES.

Washington. June

2nd,

"Thoy maintain an average drive electric generators. The Diesele-quipped ships, plying service speed of about 11 knots generators will supply current for over regular routes, are going to an hour when fully loaded-not plaottle motors which, in turn, help the United States Shipping particularly fast, but all that is will drive the propellers. Board win its fight for supremacy required.

After aquipping and putting its

of the sous,

"Their principal advantago is

Twelve ships, lying idle now, in low fuel consumption, low Diesel float into service, the Ship- but whose hulls ara in perfect operation cost and, the fact that Ping Board contemplates selling condition, are being fitted out they can carry enough fuel to the ships to private intoresta. In with theso engines, the last word carry them around the world. the meantime it plans to build up in marine power.

They are practically independent America's foreign trade-and net sizes,-8,800

The hulls selected are of three of ro-fuelling stations--an Im considerable profit doing it.. Kayseeka; 0,400 tons like the

tons, liko the portant item in a long haul.

The Board decliled upon Diesel- Botey. Bell, and 12,000 tons like is they are 'oxceptionally dopen- its theories with the William Another point in their favour equipped ships after trying out William Fonn, the last of which able, running on their schedules Penn, launched June 19, 192, already has been so converted. like clockwork."

Within a few years this Dissol

and immediately put into rdi. A Dionel engine operates on the world service. Its route floot te to be augmented to 60 much the same principle as a from New York to New York- ships, aggregating approximately gasoline motor, with the via Norfolk, Panama, Honolulu, difference that it has no spark Kobe,Tsingtao, Shanghai, Manila, FUEL SAVERS.

plugs. Instead of gas, it uses a Singapore, Port Said,, Marseilles, used for long cargo hauls-in the spook technically; igniton and Antwerp, Rotterdam and Ham- When completed they will be fuel oil which "explodes "or, to La Havro, Dunkirk, Liverpool, Australian, Oriental and round burns rapidly-under compres burg. ticularly suited for this type of the world trade.

"Diesel engines are par-

work," says Mr. T V. O'Connor, Shipping Board Chairman.

H. Butt, the ex-Sussex wicket-600,000 tons. keeper, boasts of a unique record. He is the only living person who took active part in both games in which South Africa wero out for Hawke's XI. at Port Elizabeth, 30. He kept wicket for Lord

whore first it happened in 1895, and stood umpire at Edgbaston on June 14. Butt is proud of this record.

Nowcastle United's decision to build up a third team for next season le a wise plan, providing thoy can find fiituros for their juniors. Aston Villa hava dona this sort of thing for yours-a quarter of a century. A now dopartod Villa director onco faald:-"Yos, it costs us something to run a third team, but it saves us a lot in transfora." That was in the days when £1,000 would have boon stupend- ous as a transfor free.

Is the Yorkshire cricket oleven of to-day as good as that which represented the county 20 years ago? Lord Hawko, the captain of the last generation, thinks they wore the greatest county team that over optered the field. This statomont is made in the course of a most approoiativo in- troduction to the "History of Yorkshire Cricket" which is the

OF work of A. W. Pullia. "If I say

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These Machines are now being Demonstrated in our Sports

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Your inspection is cordially invited.

I that I do not think the present team le quito equal to mino," writes Lord Hawko, "It is only because I do not consider it has buon opposed by quite such good erickotors as we had to play against." "Mr. “Pullin's history is aplandidly dona, and, since York- shiro orloket lag vory" largoly English orloket, it should mako.a wide appoal evon outside the County of Broadacres.

Doos a lady pay the usual penalty of a bottle of whisky when sho boles in one -troke on the golf links, or is she let off with a pot of ton? Mra. E. Hope accomplished the funt at the third holo (150 yards) on the Bush HOI Park dourse recently,

For the first time, In the history- of Tost arlokot, a batsman has scored 100 in the frat two matchos of a sorios in England, Catterall mado 120 at BIN mingham in his firat Test match in. England, sa did AG PROB "Murdosh/:Grahadam LandL GR lande Kal

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THE

On its last voyage it made this trip of 27,533 miles with a fual consumption of1,812 tone-30 tons less than it started out with.

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