Show TI DID S SWIM ACROSS STRAIT OF OF- SINGAPORE Capt II Sproule of ot the British army on furlough from his regiment which Is qU quartered at Tien and D D. Stuart C Carmichael a merchant of ot Singapore are at the Kenyon nenon on their way to England Mr II Carmichael expects to spend a year there and on the conti conti- nent f We Ve expect t to be in London for tor the coronation of ot King Edward remarked the man from m the Malay peninsula It vm be the i ceremony and most roost Imposing spectacle that will will take e place In England In our day Capt Sproule's regiment mt was the first Shi BrItiSh organIzation to reach Peking when the u foreign legations were bet be by the Chinese Boxers He spoke In the highest terms of ot praise of th the y brave-y shown by the women of th the British and American legations in th the face tace of deadly peril How about that st story ry recently published pub pub- about a tiger swimming across acres the strait of ot Singapore was asked Mr 1 Carmichael That was really a fact tact A Bengal Benga tiger had been hard pressed by hunters hunter for days clays Th They y hunted him down t to the tho waters water's edge supposing that h he would turn to bay as there was apparently apparently no escape Instead of ot doing that the old man eater took to the water am and swam across the strait to the island o of Sumatra a distance of ot sixty miles I It was wab a tremendous feat Ceat and all the more so BO as tigers like Uke their domestic prototypes proto proto- types are not over fond of ot w water ter |