Victory for Junior Company ie Annual Competition The annual inter-company competition of the French Fire Brigade was held on Satutday afternoon at the French Park, An unusually large crowd attended the affair, amongst whom were many pro: minent people of the French Concession and the International Settlement. The beautiful weather made the competition one of the most delightful affairs of its kind evoe held.
Each company competed in thres wents, Points were awarded according to the time taken to complete each exercise, Company number cone, M. A. Brun, captain, scored as follows: "exercise 1, 72 seconds, exercise 2, 512 seconds, exercise 3, 52 seconds. Total 176 seconds, Company number two, captained by G.-C. Nazer,. scored as follows: Exercise 1, 472 seconds, exercise 2, 493 seconds, exercise 3, 49 seconds. Total 1463 seconds, Following the competition Mf. Donne presented beautiful cup 46 the winners, after which Madame Miyrier presented the individual prizes. Captain M. Chapeaux tien presented Madame Bfeyrier with bouquet.
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