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THE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN-T MEETING of Voting Mercbers TH
ARY GENERAL MEETING will be held in the Jockey Club of Shareholders will be held at Room, Hong Kong Club Annex, on the Offices of the undersigned on FRIDAY, 17th May, 1929, at 5.10 THURSDAY, the 23rd May, 1929,
at Noon, for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1928.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents.
Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1929.
By Order,
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Secretary.
Hong Kong, 30th April, 1929.
CLUB.
WAR REVELATIONS
HIDEOUS ADVENTURES OF
"The two men stared aghast, petrified, gazing at certain destruc- tion, which was right upon them. The torpedo was perfectly aimed. It was headed straight amidships. Like a Flying Fish "Then the torpedo leaped out of Lowell the water. When a dozen yarda
GERMAN SUBMARINES
'RAIDERS OF THE DEEP'
An American author, Mater wowed away it rose from the water like a many of the German "" boat sur-flying fish. vivors, and in a new book, "Raiders "To hit a submarine with a of the Deep," he gives mach valuable torpedo you have to set the missile This one had information. He tracked down for a shallow run. such men as officers of the "been set for too shallow a run, and boat which sank the "Lusitania," had done what a torpedo in that cir-! and other "aces."
cumstance is likely to do-popped i
It described a *Submarine Room'
out of the water. At the German Naval Officers' graceful are and landed on our deck. The SHARE REGISTER and
Club there is au inner sanctum, a It slid, with a loud clattering on the TRANSFER BOOKS will be
submarine-room, the only place of steel plates, kept on its way, plung- CLOSED from the 9th to the 23rd HONG KONG JOCKEY its kind in Germany, which is covered into the water on the other side, May, 1929, both days inclusive.
ed with photographs of submarine and continued ita journey." THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE commanders the dead. The num "The loud banging-as-the-torpedo MEETING will be held (wea-ber of pictures was 131-approxi-had struck the deck and rattled ther permitting) at Happy Valley mately that many of Germany's across awakened me in my bunk be- I thought one of our masts on SATURDAY, May 18 and on Captain Nemos went down during low.
had fallen down and I scrambled up MONDAY, May 20, 1929, com-the war in their boats. mencing at 8 p.m.
They included the commander to the bridge.”
"There, right beside our boat, was, The first bell will be rung at who sank the "Lusitania," and the
fresh-faced youth who laid the a periscope. I had scarcely spied 2.30 p.m.
a streak The charge for admission to the mines that sent Lord Kitchener to the periscope when I saw Public Enclosure will be 81 the bottom, and the one who sank approaching us on the few yards of
the British warship Formidable," intervening water-a torpedo. for all persons including Ladies.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform as well as the three who took their
A Narrow Escape last dives when they matched their
"Helm hard aport." half price.
I gave the against Admiral Gordon order out of instinctive habit. Members are advised that they wits
meant nothing. No earthly power must show their Badges to obtain Campbell.
No fewer than 85 commanders, could have swerved the boat in such are learn. went down in the "U"
a way as to get it one side or the Kong, FRIDAY, 24th MAY.
Each member as the right to boat operations off the coast of path of the torpedo. The missile 1929, at-1-1-deloskam for the
was-coming directly towards us....... purpose of receiving the Report of introduce 2 non-members to the Flanders.
The Phantom Submarine tickets for Members Enclosure,
"Dreadful, agonizing moments. the Directors and the Statements
A ghastly story concerns the U-31. Nothing happened. whom
be
from obtained
The torpedo came back, "Weeks of Account to 31st December. Mesars. Linstead & Davis at $5 which never
passed under us, but not more than The 1928, and of declaring Dividends, each per day up to Friday, May and months went by and nothing
a few inches, I am sure. She had simply enemy, seeing his first torpedo jump was heard. cf her. The charge for admission for vanished, and we supposed she had over our boat, decided-not-to-set- struck a mine. Six months later the second one for too high a run. she created senations as the phantom He aimed it too low."
The carrator is
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received in the House of the Pring palTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Individual care and attention.
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that
OR- the SIXTIETH DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY. 24th MAY, 1929,
a.m.. for purpose of receiving the Report of
at
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can
Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2 per day.
motor car.
of an
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There is one intriguing story of
American boat commanders were ordered to
Each member can obtain, upon submarine." application to the Secretary, Baron Von Spiegel, new a German the winter of 1915-16, when "U" Badges for admission of 2 Ladies representative free of charge.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etc.. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meetings.
No children allowed in either enclosure on any pretext.
Hong Kong. May 13, 1929.
Q.
R.
the
PUBLIC AUCTION,
DON'T WASTE WATER!
sink no more merchant ships with- out warning. It is told by Ritter K. S. von George, a young Bavarian knighted for his "U" boat "suc- cess," now a merchant shipping officer.
"There we were in the middle of the fishing fleet and quite unsuspect- "AU' boat above water nosed ed. My orders were to make pro- Nothing vision for the safety of crews, and its way slowly along.
It looked trim and the moment I gave warning my pro- seemed amiss. menacing, as if ready to dive and spective victim could go acurrying launch a torpedo at any moment. It was drifting before the wind though, and finally ran askore the eastern coast of England. tonished fishermen sent out.. an Naval men came hurrying
They boarded the
on As-
the Directors and the Statements DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS alarni
The U boat lay rocking, aground
etc.
21st
Bence.
I resolved away in the darkness.
I called the to try an experiment. captain of the Norwegian ship I had sunk. I bade him take the small, boat with a couple of his men, go over to the nearest trawler and inform the captain of our pre- of Account to 31st December, of the Sale by Public Auction "CHINA" LADIES' HAIR DRESSING 1928, and of declaring Dividends, to be held on TUESDAY, the on a sandbar.
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with his crew to me, as I am going MAY, Order of His Excellency the Gov- The U-boat, which was the to sink his ship." from 6th MAY to 24th Both Days inclusive.
ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land same 'U' 31 that had left port that
Neat Bluff at Shamshuipo, in the Colony Friday, the 13th, six months be-
"It was all bluff. She of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 fore, was in perfect order.
I could do. nothing years, commencing from 1st July, might be on active cruise, save for skipper refused to obcy, there was 1898, with the option of renewal one thing.
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Kong. on FRIDAY, 24th MAY, 1929. at 11.20 am.. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1928, and of declaring Dividends. etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED
May,
If the trawler
My Nor- at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the in their bunks and hammocks, as Irwegian returned, and with him the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, asleep-they
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In the dated six
were dead. for one further term of 24 years log the last entry was less three days.
months before.
A Fatal Nap "The boat, the daily account show- ed, had steered out of Wilhems- haven on one of the early 'U' boat cruises of the war. It had encountered 110 ur-
Its toward happening.
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skipper and the crew of the trawler. They drew up alongside the 'U' boal The skipper of the trawler had not even attempted to warn the other fishing boats.
"Splendid! Why not carry on the bluff? I now sent the captain of the trawler out, and with him one of my officers and four of my men. They made the round of the trawlers of them tead been ordinary and uneventful, there were twenty-two
voyage
The record made humdrum reading,and warned the skipper of each to until it suddenly broke off that day abandon ship and bring his crew six months before, and after that over to the 'I' boat.
mysterious blank.
An po nale plan. 0,079
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"And
hours
several now for nine-days wonder. the splashing of oars resounded on This dead man's boat had seeming-all sides in the darkness.
3
We
ly been cruising around for six gathered in the crews aboard one of months over the heavily-patrolled the trawlers and then set about the water of the North Sea. It sound work of destruction."
Naval ed like a case of spooks. men could only find one explanation for the unearthly phenomenon, and this explanation is no doubt the true
one.
"The boat had gone to the bottom for the night, as was often dane. Officers and men had turned
in to sleep, while the craft lay Becured on the floor of the sea. In
..at $28.00 per tem. that case, one man would very like-
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"Poison gases, such as sub- marines, particularly of the older! types, were likely to generate, had) crept into the places where the men lay, and had suffocated them as they slept. Then the boat lay on the bottom. The compressed air leaked little by little.
"As month after month. went by it gradually blew the tanks, until, finally, the boat was buoyant en- ough to rise to the surface. Its resting place on the bottom had been
Sir Charles Grant Robertson
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bis first visit to the Dominion at of the National Here is a remarkable story of the invitation an event in the Mediterranean in Council of Education to be a guest November, 1917, told by Comdr. and speaker at the conference on Von Arnauld: "The amazing thing "Education and Leisure" held at happened while I was dozing off. Victoria and Vancouver in April. Prince Sigismund and Lauenberg He also addressed meetings at a were on the bridge, when they saw number of cities on his way to the at a distance of 40 yards to the coast. His subject was "Empire starboard a few inches of peri- Builders" and such names 23 scope sticking above the surface of Drake, Rhodes and Sir Stamford the water. re-
A streak on the water Raffles, who became an eastern - torpedo. It was coming Rajah, were among the subjects straight at the boat. The distance of his lectures. Sir Charles was was so short that there was no time tutor to the Prince of Wales at to manoeuvre to avoid the missile. Oxford from 1912-1914 and his life Nothing could be done, absolutely has been full of movement and nothing.
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