Volunteer Firemen Hold Last Competition The last competition to be held by the volunteer firemen of the French Concession brigade "Lo. Torrent" took place at Koukaza Park on November 17, At. the end of this year the active volun teer organization will cease to exist, as the brigade will become entirely professional, The competition was a direct contrast to many of its predecessors. Instead of being held on tha usual Saturday afternoon, it was held in the early morning, and on.
Monday at that, There were n0 spectators, except firemen, no con~ sular or other officials present, and no speechmaking or prize-giving after the event.
Actually this last competition was, in the opinion of those who officiated and took part in it, the best that the unit has held, "The work was very clean and penalties were occurred only on one or two occasions, and it was just the extra peed by' the winners, and not any fault by other teams, that" gave them the victory.
There were four teams consist ing of five men each, drawn from both No.1 (French) ' and No. 2 (International) company, and that under the foremanship' of L. Fy Stokes' won from G. C, Nazer's team by 3h see, of this a penalty represented 2 sec. Stokes' men Were slow in the first event, but. made up for this By very smart work in the next two. Nazer's men started very well, were only average on the second event, and slowest of all teams on the last, although the difference between all teams in the last only amounted to less than B seconds.
The competition consisted of plain straight Iny-ons, without any escape-work, and only one: shore ladder was used in the whole competition, in one of the three evente. Commencing with the laying of two streams from a hydrant, the first event closed with the replacing of a broken length of hose. In the second event a pomp was brought into use, the two original lines of ing connected to it and led tributer, from which three connected, into use.
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