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...spanking breeze was blowing up one day last fortnight as the schooner Livonia nosed out to sea past Plana Cay near Acklin Island, Bahamas. At the helm was Rt. Rev. Roscow George Shedden, Anglican Bishop of Nassau, master and owner of the Livonia. A hearty amateur yachtsman, a onetime (1909-19) captain in the British Royal Fusiliers, Bishop Shedden has since 1919 been spiritual lord of the Bahama, Turk and Caicos Islands-a diocese embracing 13,122 church members, 83 churches, extending some 175,000 square miles of land and sea. To visit his flock he had embarked...
...shivering, slapping at mosquitoes, the party assembled on the cay. After a while Capt. Taylor took the crew back to the hulk of the Livonia to fish for clothing and supplies. These secured, the captain attempted to salvage Bishop Shedden's belongings by diving into the cabin. The Bishop and crew urged him to stop diving. But he went down once more, never came...
Back on the cay the little party built a fire that night to attract passing ships, but none came. Next day Missionary Knowles and two of the crew improvised a sail and mast, set out for Acklin Island, 17 miles away. The Bishop, Miss Shedden and the rest of the crew waited that long day, marooned. Then came a Turk's Island sailing sloop which Missionary Knowles had encountered. But not until a week after that did Nassau get the news, send out a launch to fetch home its boating Bishop...
Before the week was out 5,000 British troops commanded by Brigadier General William George Shedden Dobbie were in Palestine, mightfully striving to restore order and protect not only the large cities but such strategic towns as El Abadiyeh and Jur-el-Mujami (see map), twin sites of the chief generating stations of the Palestine Power Trust, founded and managed by famed, dynamic Zionist Pincus Rutenberg (TIME, Mar. 4). Neither bristling, florid, militant General Dobbie nor the cold, curt High Commissioner made the smallest vestige of an answer to the week's most vital question: Why were not adequate...
...season of 1927-1928. But a player who played on a class B team in the 1926-1927 season may play in the contest, is he has restricted his playing for the 1927-1928 season to class C teams. All entries should be forwarded to W. M. Shedden, in care of the Union Boat Club, Chestnut Street, Boston. If the names are not sent in by noon February 25, they will not be considered for the tourney...