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GREAT SEASON FOR BRITISH YACHTING Banner Summer at British Regattas, With Several Important Events' (By Canadian Press) London, July 13%.--Yacht racing fn England has been recovering steadily from the effects of the war and is now practically at its pre-war level; in fact, there are ample indications that the pres- ent season wil equal the historic year of 1893, which is generally sonsidered the greatest in the an- pals of British yachting. In that vear King Edward (then Prince of Wales) hoisted his rae- lowinz indicates a good average: 1.--Yachts exceeding 135 tons Thames Measurement. This is the class of largest British racing yachts; this seasom it comtains six large cutters and a large schoon- er, and they are the grandest rac- ing craft to be found anywhere in the world. Two of the cutters-- Cambria and Astra--were built and completed this year. 2.--Yachts exceeding T0 tons Thames Measurement, but not ex- ceeding 135 tons. 3.--Yachts exceeding 30 toms Thames Measurement, but not ex- ceeding 70 toms. 4.--Yachts: exceeding 15 tons Thames Measurement, but not ex- ceeding 30 tons. §.--Yachts not exceeding 15 tons Thames Measurement. 6.--Yachts of the 12 metre In. ternational Rating Class. 7.--Yachts of the 8 metre In- ternational Rating Class. &.--Yachts of the 6 metre In. THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928 LAL PAGE NINE Fi 36 Gination well-conditioned steamers are under construction of Police, Sir Edmund Henderson, which really fell into the basket, mainly because he fell foul of the Home Secretary. Sir Charles Warren took Sir Edmund's place, but he did not keep it over-long. One Commis- sioner succeeded another in quick order, until there came the 15 year command of Sir Edward Henry. The police strike during the last vear of the War was a regrettable incident. The men were admit- tedly underpaid, but everybody in authority had perhaps been too engrossed with war efforts to at- tend to the legitimate greivances of the police. These were remedi- ed promptly when the strike hap- pened, and Sir Edward Henry was honorably retired with a baronetcy. Genera] Sir Nevil Macready then took command for a couple of vears. He had hardly arrived at Scotland Yard when a 'red' ele- ment in the force organized an- other strike. It proved a regular .at a price For Tire Quality . . PATHFINDER ADE to meet the quality of most tires, butremarkably low in price. Goodyear built--subject to standard Waranty--buil of SUPERTWIST ords. 30 x 33 Cord $ 7.25 31x4 Cord... 12.70 32 x 4 Cord . 13.55 33 x 4 Cord 14.10 ational Steamships for services between Canadian Atlantic ports, the West Indies and British Guiana, and Bermuda, the Ba iy Tah dw iL : x son" an e ready augurate the servic i LB ne A ei a of year, These steamers will engage in the passenger, cargo and contain respectively 20 and 23 mail service, avel- ng flag in the famous Britannia, and the whole season was marked by large entries in all races, keen racing, and public interest, at all regattas round the coasts. 29 x 4.40 Cord .. 9.30 ternational Rating Class. There are seven yachts in class fiasco, and since that time there has been no suspicion that the general body of the fofce is not perfectly loyal, and on the whole contented with their terms of ser- Britannia is still the royal rac- Ing cutter and the very many re- gattas that she has attended dur- Ing her long life have gained much from her presence, whether re- garded fromr the point of view of the yachtsmen or that of the pub- lie spectators. The sport of vacht- Ing is attracting a steady stream of recruits and there has also been In recent years a remarkable re- vival in yacht building. The outstanding features of the present season are the unusually large numbers of yachts in each and every racing class and the fact that more new craft are making their debut than in any year since the termination of the war. Large Entries Hence, it is expected that, in all the important regattas, there will he big entries in all races, and this has the effect of making the racing keen, close and spectacular. There is much diversity of size and type in the yachts comprised in the racing fleets of England, and they must be sub-divided into rac- ing groups so that the disparity between all those in the same race may not be too great, The classification {is not the same at all regattas but the fol- ------------------ Boys' Bathing Suits........ + 49c Dominion Clothing Co. 68 King St, W. Phone 2141 We Deliver vessels. In the International Rating Classes, there are 14 12-metre, 13 8-metre and 36 6-metre boats. Comprehensive Regulations The vessels in classes 6, 7 and 8 (commonly called the "metre classes), are built in conformity with certain very comprehensive regulations agreed upon by all the yachting nations that have repre- sentatives on the International body. Yachts in each of the "metre" classes are generally found to be closely matched, both in design and other qualities, and they pro- vide. excellent sport. All the above mentioned craft, but more especially those In classes 1 to 4 and 6, are suitable for making passages from regat- ta to regatta, The big regattas are held In the following localities, and ths year they are taking place in the order in which they are set down here: Harwich, Southend-on-Sea, Clyde, Belfast, Lough, Falmouth, Plymouth, Southampton, Cowes, Ryde, Southsea, Bournemouth, Weymouth, Torquay, Dartmouth. In addition to the above-men- tioned yachts, there are in many localities around the British coasts groups of small racing yachts and hoats of diverse types and of a length of waterline between 12 feet and 30 feet; there are about 60 of these that appear definitely in the one design and restricted classes, but very many others take part occasionally in racing. 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Lord Byng's immediate pre- decessor, Sir William Horwood, The steamers will be 438 feet over all, 59 feet 8 inches extreme 1,5 heen commissioner for eight th, maximum draught 24 feet, They wil of 14 knots. be operated by the Nationa! Steamships in connection with the trade agreement made by the Canadian hulls will be three bands of ved, white and blue. Government and the Governments of the Islands, ted white, with red boot topping, and the funnel in The their own home waters at regattas provided from time to time dur- ing the season; in fact, there are not a few .localities in which a regatta is held once a week, important fixture this year was the series of team races between British and American yatchsmen held on the Clyde this month for a trophy known as the British- American cup; the yachts throughout were of the International Rating Class. race in the English Channel in which the yachts of a waterline length not less than 27 feet more than 35 feet can compete is another big event. The race starts at Cowes on August 2, and the eourse is: Cowes to Cherhourg and back to the starting line at Cowes, An ocean race will start: at Cowes 'on August 15, of a waterline length not less than 35 feet nor more than 60 feet are eligible, In this race the cour:e is: Cowes to the FKastnet, thence to the finish at Plymouth, The yachts competing in the channel and ocean races are of the sea-going eruiser type, and it hap- pens not infrequently in races of this kind that the seamanship or the crew and the seawortHiness; of the vessel are severely the weather conditions; often punishing races. they are | A series of yacht races of much | international interest wil] he held at Amsterdam from Aus 2 to 9, these heing the races of the Oly mpie Games of 1028, The vast majority of the general publie regard yachting as a sport only for the very rich, but thera are many hundreds of owners of small eruising and also racing yachts who sail their own 'eraft and might, perhaps be called yacht "owner drivers." These men and the hands em- ployed in the larger yachts furn- ished a not inconsiderable part of the nava] reserve in the last war; yachting provides, incidentally, a very fine preliminary training for many of the duties on which naval reservists are employed, And where yachting is rich man's sport, {.e., in the larger yachts, the greater part of the outlay passes ultimately into wages paid to the employes of the yacht and hoat builders, to the crews of the yachts and to the suppliers of the innumerable kinds of stores and. goods resuired for yachts, AFRICA ATTRACTS GERMAN SETTLERS Alarm and De- light ; Capetown, South Africa, July 18.--A steady influx of German settlers recently into South. West Africa is viewed with alarm in some quarters, although it is point- ed out the eountry cannot again hecome German. After the defeat of the German troops in 1915 the Germans vir- tually evacuated the country, but after the war they began to re- turn and today have regained a majority of the governing bodies of the district. Responsible cir- cles welcome this change. The Windhook Advertiser pays a8 tribute to the German settlers for their "noted courage, perse- verance and industry," and de- clares their presence is welcome in this thinly populated area. "The only fear is that not enough 'Germans will be attraeted before the enthusiasm for emi- gration dies out," the paper says. Indications, however, are that the Germans are establishing per- manent homes in the South West. The settlers are advertising for German brides and 12 of these ar- rived recently to meet prospective husbands they had never seen. Six thousand girls in Ireland have joined a modest dress cru- sade. The other members of the fair sex probably do not care a button about the movement.-- Brantford Expositor. It is said that there are fewer swear words im Welsa than in English. Well, a man who lives in a plee like Lianfairpwllgyvigyll hasn't much breath Jleft for swear- ing.--London Sunday Picterial. LORD BYNG'S POST One | | ss tonnage T7650 tons and a ! Canadian years. | CANNIBAL MOSQUITOES | WILL BE IMPORTED TO EAT ORDINARY INSECTS New York, July 19.--_The long- cherished dream of Mrs. Charles B. Williams, of Flushing, Queens, to import some cannibal mosqul- A DIFFICULT ONE ices from France and have them in Flushing may be realized before eat up all the ordinary mosquitoes | some trustworthy person to rice | All Weather Tire Shop 8 Celina St.,, Oshawa Phone 2462 For service sake, buy at home Ll SS If any of the larvae hatch--or hatches--on the way across, 1 will know how to feed them. Few other persons would." and - eee ies her- Thus far, nobody has seen fit to recall that one of the names which nobody saw fit to mention during the convention was McAdoo,--Qe- ed recently, A letter from Dr. Mrs. Williams, who, due to her Jean Legendre, of Paris, who |anti-mosquito campaigns of tle breeds the cannibal mosquitoes, | past two years, has been ahie to has just been received, she said, | sit on her lawn with some comfort informing her that he can furn-|this simmer, plans to go ove! ish as many of the insects as she bring them back to Flushing wants, providing she will send |self. "They have to he taken care the immigrants at Cherbourg and on the voyage, she said, "and used | fi-metre | nor | and. yachts | tested hy | ' Commissioner of Metropoli- | tan Police Must Please Government and Public (B11 Canadian Press) London, July 19. --Viscount Dyng, when he assumed the posi- tion of Commissioner of Metro- | politan Police, certainly did not | betalie himself into a bed of roses. The Commissionership 'is one of the summer is over, she announc- | accompany themr across the ocean. [feel that I should do this myself, troit News, wer =v ad tha most arduous, and one of the most r2:ponsible offices in the [whole administrative system of | Britain It is remarkable too, how | many Comniissioners have retired | fvirtually under compulsion, al- | though in not a single instance | has th:re heen the slightest sug- | ze-tion against their personal in- | tegrity When "he takes up duty months hence, Lord Byng | will enter Scotland Yard at a tim? when, for various reasons, the reputation of the Metropolitan Police Foree among the puhlie, if | not exactly under a cloud, is not rezerded with that serspe com- placoney which for many years was [tha almost general f2eling held by the people of London at large. Responsible to Parliament The Commissioner of Metropoli- tan Polic is the ecervant of the Home Scerstary This Minister is directly vesponcible to Parliament for anything connccted with the policinz of the London area. His ecountorsign is necessary to all ma- jop orders issued by the Commis- ioner in handling his officers and {men and in dealing with the pub- lie The Commissioncr eommands a force of 20,000 and the Metro- politan Police District covers an | larca of TOO square miles, The | | Commissioner receives a salary of | 315.000, There are three assist- eommis:ioners, who receive | $7,500 cach There ar? also 3 | deputy assistant commissioners, |each drawing $5,000 or more. Among them {is Lieut.-Col. P. R. Laurie, who is head of the Mount- ed Police, and who, Incidentally, was staff officer under Lord Byng during part of the war. The Metro- politan area is divided into three districts, each under a Chief Con- stable, and these agan are sub- divided into 26 divisions each un- der a superintendent, Metropolitan Police finances are administered by an official known as the Receiver, who has his office {in the same building as the Com- missioner at Seotland Yard, but who is responsible directly to the Home Secretary, The total] an- nual cost of the Force is some $30,000,000, The Home Secretary himself decides the amount of tax to be levied upon the munieipal boroughs and other local authori- ties within the Metropolitan Police area. The Imperial Treasury makes a grant of half the cost of the Metropolitan Force (a similar grant js made to all other Police Forces in the country, although these are almost entirely under lo- cal or county administration). There is also a special grant from the Treasury to the Metropolitan Force for services of an Imperial | character, such as the guarding of the Houses of Parliament, the Ro- yal Palaces, and Government buidings. Has Three Masters The visitor to London from afar has for 50 years or more been impressed with the courtesy and helpfulness of the London "bobby." But the Commissioner--the man at the head of this army in blue-- has three masters. He has to please the Home Sesretary, and through him the Government. He has to habdle his men, And he has to handle the public. Perhaps the "roughest" time which was ever encountered by the Higher Com- mand of the Metropolitan Force was away back in the 80's, when there was a popular clamor for what was known as "the right of free speech" in Trafalgar Square. Those were the days long before John Burns became a Privy Coun- cillor and a member of the Minis- try. 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