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BANGKOK CHINESE WINS TCS. 75,000.
Bangkok, June 10. Mr. Chan Chee-meng, a sober and respected Chinese merchant of Bangkok, who does not gamble as
much that he will not be able to of the windscreen. It was the decide what to do as they all say same colour as the body, and was that he is a steady man in bust-practically invisible, and I doubt ness as well as in private life. Con whether even Sherlock Holmes trary to expectations that, the first would have found it. This round step he would take was to embark piece of metal had been blessed by a en a trip to
China for good as cardinal on behalf of the Pope, but many Chinese perhaps would have unfortunately it did not bring Don done in his present circumstances the success he so much desired. his friends are of the opinion that he will utilise his fortune in im-
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
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Opening Daily Official Quotations 26th June, 1930.
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Keen-Eyed Lord Brecknock. Now that I am on the subject of Hong Kong Bank ... 1510 a general rule and never before this proving his business in Bangkok the Silver Bullet perhape I may be
Chartered Bank year had even permitted himself the instead. Mr. Chan Chee-meng is allowed to refer to another amall Mercantile Bk., AND. excitement of buying a ticket on the returning from Korat, when his matter. Late one night, accom- Bank of Asis Calcutta Sweepstakes, is probably friends expect him to announce hispanied by Bill Sturm, Don's Ainer- the happiest and the luckiest man in intentions for the future. Slam, saya the Bangkok Daily Mall.
seven
The luckfest men
next happiest and are seven employees
of the firm in which he is a part- ner Chang Wo & Company in Songward Road.
SUPERSTITIONS.
MEN WHO BELIEVE IN CHARMS.
For Mr. Chan Chee-miong held a third interest in ticket on Diolite in the A lover of peace and quietness, I great English classic and Diolite never fail to spend an hour or so in eame In third. The
other the immediate vicinity of a cathe. seven men held equal shares in thedral. Thus it was that, just as the remaining two thirds.
sun was setting, I leaned against a Mr. Chan Chee-meng will collect wall-there were 110 seats for approximately Tos. 78,000 when, wearied bones and bodies and the cheques for the Sweep come looked up at the grand old pile around and his friends will get in Worcester. Worcester's cathedral about Tes. 22,000 apiece.
looka straight down on the cricket 3245.
ground, and if it could talk many are the tales. It could unfold.
The ticket was No. 3245 and was purchased at the Mercantile Bank
Good-Luck Tokens. by Mr. Chan Chee-meng and his My wanderings after I had view- seven friends along with three ed the cathedral from all angles took others which they shared in the me past many shops, and it struck same way.
me as curious that in the majority
ican manager, we motored to the . In prances- garage to give Lard Brecknock, who Canton Int.....5 had just arrived in the town on a
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very short visit, his first sight of Union Ins. monș the car.
Lord Brecknock had hard-China Underwriter ...5 ly fastened his eyes on the racer in Fire Ins...$†£00 when he turned to me and said,
"How many painted flags can you H. K. Fire It $
"DO
see?" "Four," I replied, "two on the nose and two on the tail.” you notice anything remarkable about them?" Inquired the peer, who is so well liked in Daytona that he is usually referred to, and some- times addressed as, "Brock." answered in the negative. "Well," said Lord Brecknock, "the American flag is on the wrong side, while the three British flags are
at half- mast." And that was true. In- agine flags at half-mast machine
connected with such a flirtation with death as that at Daytona !
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The other seven, like so many there were for sale that well-known other people in Bangkok, had medallion which depicts Saint bought many tickets in years past, Christopher with a tiny child on his without winning a satang, but this shoulder. The description on every was the first time Mr. Chan Chee-one read: "Behold Saint. Christo- meng ever had bought one.
pher; then go your way in safety." Before the ruce, the holders of That set me musing. I remembered the ticket had gold half interest in that athletes of all descriptions are it to a Calcutta syndicate. When very partial to charms and symbols, news reached Bangkok that Diolite and that even some of the Austra-
con- Radio came in third in the Derby, there lians who have opened their tour
America, fore- was great excitement among his in such splendid style carry in their friends, Mr. Chan Chee-mang being pockets little tokens which are sup- shadows the invention of an aero- at Korat at the present moment.posed to bring good luck. I have plane with television eyes and one The prize money for one
of the seen boxers carry almost everything capable of being steered by wire Shanghai Cotton ... Tis. three tickets on Diolite amounts to from a rabbit's foot to a Jewish less.. approximately £30,000 so that they praying shawl, while there was a will benefit £15,000 more in addi-Ruggor footballer of my acquaint- tion to the £7,500 which they, ac-lance who never went on a field with- copted. from the Calcutta syndicate out tucking into his stocking a very for the half share of the ticket. If bent silver coin. Do these charms they had not sold the half interest, bring, good fortune, or are they they would have got roughly about merely a survival of an ancient and Tes. 300,000, but as it is they get perhaps foolish superstition? saks about Tes. 225,000.
Trevor Wignall in the Daily Ex- press.
Stay in Bangkok.
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Mr. Chan Choe-meng is a partner
Kave Don's Mascot. of Messra. Chang Wo & Company, When I was at Daytona Beach in importers and exporters, and Se March I happened one day to be in cause of his cleverness in regard the garage where Kaye -Don had to market conditions and his stored his Sliver Bullet. He asked Integrity, has been attached to the me if I would like to sit in the very firm for several years aa Compra uncomfortable cockpit, but as I was dore.
climbing out of it I asked him, for He is only 35 and is blessed no particular reason, if he had a with four children, two boys and mascot concealed on Nis регвоп.
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He has been in Slam "Not on my person,"
he replied, On demard for over ten years which time "but there is one on the car.
Credits, 60 days" he has spent in business, and has if you can find it." I must have
sight been successful in a small way. investigated for twenty minutes,
His intimate friends believe that but when I was about to give up Wire his coming into such a big sum of Don pointed to a Saint Christopher On demand money at a stroke, as it were, has medallion, an exact replies of those
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