THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
“NOTICE TO MEMBERS
THIRD EXTRA RACE MEETING:
Saturday, 8th March, 1947.
The first bell will be rung nt 1.30 p.m. and thë "first""race--- will be run at 2:00 p.ni,
Through numbers--(8 -Rače-$16) may be obtained at the Office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, also tickets for the Special Caálr Sweep (82.00) on the last race. MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meat- ing.
"NO OSE WITHOUT ́A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
„Badges “admitting nin-members to the Members' Enclosure and. Club. * Rooms AL $10.00 including tax- Arc obtain. able through the Secretary upon the written or personal fis- troduction" of a-meither, «sue); member to be responsible for all ekita, ete."
Badges ainitting, to-Members' Eneinsure whi NOT be on. -Bale-at the RACE COURSE.
The Treasurers' Compradori „Bffle," willpelose at 11. n.m. and the Secretary's Office at 11.45 mm. Both Office at 1st flugr., Exchange. Building.
A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. Roy (Td. 27818).
‚· NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of sadmission to the Public Eaclure is $5 Including tax for all persons including Indies,Sandis payable af the Gate,
Bookmakers. Tie Tar Men, etc., will ant be permitted to operate within the previnets of The Hong Kong Heley Club dure the Here Mesting,
Refreshments will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the „Iublje Enebeury,
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Passos for Servifits will be issued to Prigate' Box holders ONLY 69, application to the Seerary, 1st Floor. Exchange Building.
Any percona front bitering with Servants passes in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the Enclosure.
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUÁRY 26, 1947.
THE SUN SHINES ON LONDON Temperature Still Below Freezing Point; Motorist Drives Across Alton Broad
Gas Restrictions
Probable
J
London, Feb. 23.
Though the sun shone on many areas of Britain today for the first time in three weeks Lon- don's temperatures remained below freezing point, smashing the Arctic record in the capi- tal which has stood for 100 years,
The Kew weather station near London recorded-
the first sunshine after 21 sunless days but the air temperature remained below freezing point and the capital has thus broken the Bri- tish cold recordwet up in 1841 when there wèrè 216 hours of continuous frost.
Weather experts forecast severe works *
rost again tonight with the don | The temperature In Lavition at ser of icing on cleared røds. .10 p.m. was 20 degrees. At
The Fuel Ministry today. “Issu- Ipswich it was five degrees--und "ed the waming" that there was the local" meteorological statlotr} no ground for the relaxation of it probably would reach zero‘be- the fore dawn to touch its coldest fuel economies, adding that Plectricity and gas aituation was mark of the winter.
eritient. Gas undertakings, Although power was switched with
anly 11 days coul-stocks, on at the Midlands automobile, have been ordered to make te locomotive, machine-tool
and per cent reduction in el es other Industries at one minute urried. The Ministry al said past midnight, none was expected that the crisis
the restrictions ny te resume operatiuns until have to be extended to gus regular Monday opening hou "within a day or two"
Cadbury's Closed
เหนี Anywhere from 500,000 to 1,-
the
Vera Ellen, who heads the Goldwyn Girls in "The Kid Frem Brooklyn", opening at the Queen's Theatre on Wednes. day..
Mory colliers entered Thames from Nerth Sea ports to- (000,000 Midlands workers have day and others are on their way been idle since all electricity was but bad weather har delayed the cut off to industries two weeks arrival of some London-bound ago and now these employees are ships.
expected to resume their
Jobs Channel Crossings during the week. However, many
Suspended
will be on part Wino Sinti local shortages of components and coal The southward drift of
for heating and
other purposes England and Northwest England North Sea lee-floes caused the
can be overcome...
continued in-force, ps-did-the-t cancellation of the Cross Channel Imperial Chemical Industries, five-hour daily cut for household beat services between Dover and the "Nuffield Organization, Gen cunsumers throughout Britain. Ostend but the Colis service eral Electric Company and Rover Prime Minister Attice was ex- Turther west remained open. Car Company reported they could peeled to speak in the Commons Overnight snow-storms ugain operate only three or four days cn. the fuel situation, today, but played havoc with railways white a week for the present.
the from the countles round. Londen
may delay detailed state- Austin Motor as well as areas extending from and Cadbury's chocolate
Company ment until Tuesday, He
miany worka announce the dates on Devon In the southwest to said they would be unable
which to power will be restored in in- Derbyshire came reports of Im- open at all this week because of dustries in London and other passable road.. Wild ponies and Inck of coat.
affected areas. Domestic cuts eattle on blizzard-swept Dartmoor The 100 cut in electricity fer may last a month or in Devon have been found dead industries in London, Southeast United Press.
longer- any many more are feared buried i
cor
In frozen snow-drifts.
One
motorist drove his cruss Alton Broad, well-known inke in Norfolk-the first ilme, n matorcar has crossed the. Broad
-which was lost frozen solic
years ago.
at Weymouth,” Meanwhile.
Devon, Dorset, and "Torquay, wurm dunshine brought hundreds of promenaderst to the seafront today.
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In
the bottle for fuel. "olunteer Sunday workers kept 19 South Wales collieries in pro- luction and railways were rush- ng priority cont trains over clear- a lings to London and other big population centres.
On The Continent While messages reaching Reu- ters Londen office forecast fur- many
the snow and frost in
The
"Cast-Outs Of
Other Countries"
London, Feb. 23,
Dental Footnote To History
London, Feb. 24. The former Chief of Staff to the British 8th Army, Major General Sir Francis de Guingand, give a dental footnoté to. the history of the war in his book "Operation Vic- tory," to be published on Monday.
When Winston Churchill visited 9th headquarters of the U.S. Army, Sir Francis says, he realis- ed during the Journey that he had left his false lecth behind.
..
Strong criticism of the intention to use displaced persons for Britain's under-manned indus- tries and warnings about Britain's present economic difficulties and possibility of a de- cline in the British standard of living were made by Mr: Arthur Horner, General-Secre
"In the middle of the proceed. tary of the National Union of Miners at the
ings. on interruption took place.. British Communist Party Congress here today. Some dispatch riders appeated in la cloud of dust and were follow- Mr. Horner expressed regret to strengthen the bond of solled by a Jeep. Someone jumped
darity between the British and out, rushed forward and
hand- Soviet peoples as a sure means ed over a sealed packet to the through which the United Nations Prime Minister. as a whole tan be greatly sireng thened and the peace of the world
"The onlookers thought that here was guaranteed."-Reuter.
u signal of great im- prance, some critical decision referred to him by the Cabinet. Churchill however, took the pac- ket and slipped it into his pocket. his A ghost of a smile crossed face
parts of the continent, the British controlled German news service at the failure to secure affiliation reported that a sudden rise in of the Communist Party to the | température in Eastern Saxony-Labour Party, adding: "When I threatened Dresden with floods, think what would be the position The municipal office. of water-in, the present sitostion if the und bridges hos ordered Communist Party were inside the .wav
ecial squads to stand by near Labour movement. I wonder att the bridges ond at dams to low he madness of those who pre- up lee if it threatens to pile up enged it."
Mr. Horner spoke of Britain's
there.
In northwest- Germany, nighe trade defelt and exicat of her Greek
temperatures are expected to fall debt. He said: "We have yet to till further and continuation of pay all over the world and soon fmst is predicted.
we shall be informed that Bri-
In Paris, the ometal French lan can no longer obtain credit. weather forecast predicted
fur-L
"If nothing is done, to increase ther snow-falls, with frost and our exporting ability there must temperature drop or two to four inevitably be a heavy-fall-in-the degrees Centigrade.
standard of living of the British
to
Guerilla Threatened
Just before the crossing of the}- [Rhine, Sir Francis says, Churchil! Ensked to be allotted a tank with- the carly waves of the assault "He talked about the battles he had been in during the last war, and insisted on being In the thick of it once more." -the General SOVA; Athens, Feb. 23.
"I even began to wonder whe- threatening A letter
to kither this great, man had decided Markos, the gueria that he would like to end his days leader in Northern Greece. If he in battle, at a time when he knew goes to Salonika to give evidence victory was upon us."--Associat before the United Nations Camed Press. mission. Investigating Greece's charges against her adhern neighbours, has been sent to the commission's elisirmon by Perle elas Iliades, a Macedonian Teputy. Hindes sald - that his 20-year- old daughter had been killed by
General point today.
pre
In Russia, warmer weather con-people. tinues to spread northward, and "What is the alternative? That the Moscow radio. The tempera- we continue to use up the Unit tire in Moscow may, go up
ed States loan and find ourselves freezing
but without a nem basis for our heavy widesprend
snow fallh reindustries when it is oxhausted? ported-Reuter..
"Cast-Outs" Cuts Restored
"Undermanned industries must London, Feb. 24. secure their recruits fr
from the Electricity WON restorest to manpower of Britain.” thousands of factorica in Britain's Slating that the introduction of great Industrial Midlands at 12.01 foreign inbour to the under- a.m. GMT today (Monday) but manned Industries was not fears heightened that gas restric solution to the problem, Mr tions would follow the household Homer said: "To those who think power cuts for shivering Britons that they can solve the problem Britain's first sunshine in 22 between row and summer by daysing new record today these means and enable us to quald brought a partial thaw, However, a repetition of this experience. 1. the Alr. Ministry prediction that say they lie or are ignorant of the the temperature would drop to problem."
a
Premier
guerillag near Afteria." Bothered
A group of Macedonian deputies approached Constantin Rodopoules.
Governor-General of Northern Police
Greece, saying that fionerał Markos' 'presenco in Balonika may
Calcutta, Feb, 23; 20 degrees in London and even secure their recruits from
"Under-manned Industries must cause disturbances as poople with Mr. DA...... · Hardwick, Police lower in the provinces tonight
the grudges against the guerillas have Commissioner, declared in avi raised the possibility of further mannower of Britain by changing guenly, declared, that they will dence *at the inquiry into the delova in rushing, coal to the conditions in industries and so, at- | lynch him, Finla
Calcutta communal xiom -of nation's power stations and gas educated youth of the country and tracting into them the normal
The British Labour MP, Mr.August last year that the police control roont was hampered." in ant the cast-ours of other coun. George Thomas, who recently its work by the presence of the spent five days with the Greek scalem Premier of Bengal and
personel trouble began,
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