When Mrs. Joy Lewis Curnane loft California last Autuma with her sister, Mrs, Mildved Wilson of San Francisco, for the Far Enst she came seeking material for short stories and magazine articles. But litle did she Feallze that she" was to experience, such a thrilling personal experience: as rescue from a burning vessel Mrs. Cunnane, one of the passengers rescued from the burning frcigl ter, Tricolor, spent a month or more Shanghai where she made many friends, To some of these she told her intentions of putting her travel experiences into short articles and she already had completed negotiations with several American magazines for their acceptance.
She sought adventure in Batavia, in Java, in the Philippines, in Hongkong, trid tually in Shanghat but she found the Far East "tame." Her sister: salled for California in the s. President Hoover aa. February and Mrs. Cunnane was undecided, up to the very last minute, whether or not to accompany Mrs, Wilson, Just at salle ing time. however, she decided to give China one last chance and so she remained behing.
But still the Par East, at least Shanghai, offered nothing in her mind that her home ity. Los Angeles could not, and so she boarded. the Tricolor on March 22 to return to) her newspaper job in Los Angeles and to her 12-year-old daughter in boarding school there With the men drawn up in hollow lequare and "the spectators. as" the fourth side, Mr, Arahold next pre-ented a large number of prizes to farious winners in. the Regiment. Mine cup for the most eMelent Com. frank went to No. 4, the junior the "regular units; under' the com= mand of Capt. P: K. Poronnik.
Guided by Major 8. D. Ivanoff, in Jommand of the Regiment, Mr. lArnhotd and. party then inspected the barracks, where everything, was Hale out with military neatness. The cleanliness and. order of the camp. fame in for much incrested come With the ceremony. and inspection lover, the Regiment demonstrated. its fetecuveness in ease of trouble, and the degree of skill" it has. attained finder the hard work of its officers. First came an Wlustration. of mob Jispersal, in which three grim les men tnoved down ons mob, come posed. in this case of a Company of Regiment in overalls. "The dis-eral was shown being carried out fatistaclorily, with even the side ireers guarded, until a fresh mod Jcame on the scene, Then, from be: hind, as the men on foot fell back, ame a bugle call; a fag, with Chi: nese characters to the effect that fre ras being opened, was unfurled: ire. was opened on the "mob," who firmed and ran, to be pursued, split 'p, and. eventually completely als persed. It was a very" impressive display, with its grim reality and ficiency, which not even the SVE.
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