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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, EDCEMBER 16, 1948.
DECISION
DISARMAMENT
Passed Unanimously By Assembly
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1947 Nine Paragraphs
13th, 14th and 18th January.
1.
On each day the first hell will be gung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m.
Through numbers for the three days (24 Races--$18) may be obtained at the Office of the Trensurers, 1st Floor, Ex- change Building, also, tickets ($2.00 each) in the Special Cash Sweep on the Hong Kong Derby to be run on the second day, Tuesday, 14th January
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members are reminded that they and their Indies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meet- King.
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax are obtain- able through the Secretary upon the written or personal in- troduction of a member, such members to be responsible for all ehits, etc.
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Badges admitting tor Members' Enclosure will NOT be o male at the Race Course.
The Secretary's, Office, 1st floor, EXCHANGE BUILD- ING (Tel. 277941 WILL CLOSE AT 12 NOON EACH DAY.
A limited number of tifans will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Huy (Tel. 28211).
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
1.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3 per day heiding tax for all persons including ladies, and is pay- able at the Gate,
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men. etc., will, not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
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On Principles
Flushing Meadows, Dec. 14. The United Nations General Assembly today passed unanimously, with acclamation, the disarmament resolution. The resolution calls for a general reduction of armaments with effective safeguards for those states complying and for the regulation of the atom bomb.
In its final form, the resolution passed today com-. prises nine paragraphs on "the principles governing the general regulations and reduc- tion of armaments,'
It was the subject of only half Council-the last major organ of an hour's discussion today follow-the. United Nations to be estab ing speeches by the British. For-lished. eign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin,
Both countries obtained the
the US. Secretary of State, Me. necessary two thirds majority, James Byrnes, and the Russian Mexico obtaining 36 votes and Foreign Commissar. M. Vyacheslav Iraq 34.
| Molotov, during a lengthy debate The Trusteeship Council is thus in last night's session which end-composed follow: Belgium,
as
cd in the early hours of this Australia, China, France, Iraq, Imorning.
Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States.
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Not Irregular
CUBA SUGGESTS
New, York, Dec. 15, 4 Cuba suggested that news bere of the United Nations should withdraw their he bossadors from "much coun- trica as Poland, Yugoslavia, and Rumania" as logical con- sequence of the General As- recommendation that such action be taken against Franco Spader
Cuban Ambassador Guillerms Belt offered his suggestion in an' interview Vas Great Bri- tais became the first cou try to indicate compliance with the Spanish resolution.
Associated Press.
Britain To Trade With Germany
Mr. Paul Martin of Canada and M. Alexandre Paredi of France were the only speakers today and {bath whileheartedly welcomed the
London, Dec. 14. revolution.
British Business men may Before the vote was taken, Rus- soon Neither M. Molotov nor
be permitted to enter sia. Vyshinsky who had strenuously and Yugoslavia announced that as and explore the possibilities of Byelo-Russla, the Ukraine Germany to renew old contacts piloted the Soviet views through they believed that the Trustee-trade with Germany, when Ger. the lengthy debates, were present to see the Amal satisfactory endship agreements contravened the many is allowed to trade again. terms and the spirit of the United Nations Charter, they could not be settled, but matters are be Details of the plan remain to The British Attorney-General. vote. Sir Hardley Shawcross, and the M. Paul-Henri Sonak of Beling thrashed out by British glum, said that while they had administration officials in con- Big Powers who helped to ham-perfect right to abstain from vol- junction with commercial
ing he would point out that the Trusteeship agreements had been approved by a majority of 40 votes to three or four. and he could not admit that "this selce
to their work today.
U.S. Senator. Tam Connally, re- Presentatives of the other two
mer out the phraseology and prin- ciples of the resolation. however, present
.
Anti-Climax
were.
The final passage of the resolution is irregular." tion came as an anti-climax to The Assembly then adopted a
pertė.
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Many long-term proposals are stated to be under detalled consideration but few details have been settled so far. There is no inclination in official quarters to forecast when the tig-Reuter,
floodlit and crowded scenes last resolution asking for the Trustee-plan wil be brought into opera- night when the
Assembly Hall ship Council to be convened not was packed with delegates' friends later than next March 15. Sever" and the public,
countries abstainer from voting
turn
Today there was an air of in the election of the last weariness as the Assembly was members of the Council-Reuter. being pushed to its close, pre- senting a comparatively calm and uncrowded appearance.
Immediately after the passing of the resolution the Assembly inally defeated the much debal- ed troop census proposals by 38 to six with four abstentions.
The original trop censis re solution calling for Information on troops abroad and at home, was returned to the Political Com mitteo when a demand by the Soviet Union that information on armaments should accompany re- poris on trueps at here was met by a British Counter-proposal.
Ministers Sail
New York. Dee, 15.
The Soviet Union lost its long fight to open up the atomic bomb secret immediately but Russia's Foreign Minister, M. Molotov sailed for home with American A assurances that control of atomle weapons with the attendant dis- closure of all facts would be given top priority in the widely acclaimed baste plan for world- wide arms limitation.
As Molotov boarded the liner Queen Elizabeth after attending the Foreign Ministers Conference It was then decided to replace and the most important United the troop census resolution by a that the results were "as satis
Nations sessions he commented new recommendation that, to in-factory to the Soviet delegation plement as soon as possible the 38. they are to the ather delega- armament plan, the General As- tions." sembly calls upon the Security He also expressed confidence Counel to determine, as soon as that the forthcoming Ministers possible, information which the session in Moscow next March to member states should be called on discuss the German; peace treaty
to furnish.
Gromyko Speaks
Fiancee
Met By Tragedy
Southampton, Dec. 14.
Diving operations be- gan today to recover two bodies believed to be) trapped in a motorcar at the bottom of Southamp- ton dock. The car plung-I ed over the side of the dock last night in fog.
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Mr. Ivor Thomas of Rhyd- fell. Pontypridd,.. had travelled by car from Pontypridd with his stater, and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Arthur Burgess of Pontypridd, to meet his fiancee, Mra. Elthia Zeink, who was disembarking from Bombay.
Leaving the dock area, the into, the water. The body of car toppled over the quayside Mrs. Burgess was recovered later. The
bodies of
presumed to be trapped in the Thomas and Mrs. Zeink
car at the bottom of the dock. The Burgesses. have two chil- dren, aged 18 and 16.
Ivor were
At a hospital today, Mr. Bur- gess said that he was driving away from a lighted customs shed when he found himself enshrouded in must have mistaken the direc
thick fog. He tion and driven towards quay edge. He saw the side of the quay too late to stop the ear going over-Reuter,
Bulgaria Training Guerillas?
the
Didymothicon (Greek Thrace), Dec. 14. dusk to dawn curfew has been imposed by the Greek Army in towns and villages in this border area, following the recent increase in guerilla activities along the Greco-Bulgarian frontier and against the tail end of the Salonika - Alexandropoutis - Edirne railway, linking Greece and Turkey..
In the snow-clad wind-swept Army officers, whom he named, eight hours journey on foot to Adrianople and Ortakioi, who hills near the Bulgarian border, at a frontier outpost between the west, a battalion of Greek refused to sign a protocol. re- infantrymen are cperating on a qucating that Burgeria should wartime footing, living in the deny passage to guerillas across scanty shelter of peasant huts the border and turn over to and constantly On the alert Greece guerillas crossing the against surprise attacks by frontier.
**will be as much successful". guerilios.
"Since then I have repeated- British Foreign Secretary Today, they were cut off ly naked my Bulgarian counter- M. Andret Gromyko, for the ship for home, said the Ministers by
Ernest Bevin, taking the same from their headquarters here parts to confer on the situation Soviet Union, renewed the troop had "cleared away a good deal of only link was a single wireless clared, adding that the Bul- heavy snowfall and the but have had no reply," he de- census discussion when, imme-the debris of misundertanding van a relic of the war-parked garian diately after the unanimous vote and conflict and we now can pro
Political Commissar, on the disarmameni plan, he went ceed to lay the foundation of a to the rostrum to back up the durable peace." Soviet demand for Information Other United Nations develop- about troops abroad.
ments included:
He said the 'new resolution was
as for away from the Soviet pro- poral as the sity is from the earth. How can we agree with this resolution which is now be fere us when the question of the submission of information been completely eliminated?
has
"We may ask how will it be possible to explain to' world pub-i lic opinion why the General As- sembly did not want to accept the decision on the submission of in- formation about military forces aed military bases? How will it be possible to explain, to anyone, in fact, that the General Assembly did not want the required in formation about troops?!!
Mexico and Iraq were elected members of the Trusteeship
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United scaled down from 49.80 per cent. ta 39.80 per cent. Russia will pay 0.34 per cent and Britain 11.48.
2. Setting up of the United be Nations last major body to
trustaeship council, formed, the with the election of Mexico and rag to the last two Beats. Bri tain, France. Belgium, Australis and New Zealand as administer. ing states for the eight former League mandates and the United States, Russia, China as members of the Big Five automatically were seated-Associated Pres
in the snow in the main streeta present at the recent meeting, of this dismal border town.
was responsible for the Bul- Greek staff officers here fore-garian refusal to sign the pro- cast no diminution in guerilla tocol.-Router. activity in the coming weeks. Two nights ago, guerillas at- tacked a small army outpost en the side of a railway a few
miles south of Didymothicon Frightened
and barely 100 yards frem the Turkish border, but the garri- son cf 30 men fought off the attack. A Greek major was wounded by a hand grenade.
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