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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
WHITSUN RACE MEETING
Saturday, 15th and Monday, 17th May, 1948.
On the First Day. Saturday 15th May, the First Bell will be rang at 1,30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2:00 p.m. on the Second Day, Monday 17th May, the First Bell will be rung at 11.30 a.m. and the first Race, will be run at 12noon, The Tiffin interval will be after the fourth raco (1.30 p.x,),
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE, Members and guests are rewinded Jadles MUST wear their badges throughout the Meeting.
thetr that they and PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1048.
UNITED NATIONS ADMITS FAILURE IN PALESTINE Problem Will Now Have To Solve Itself
Just One Ray Of Hope Left
Lake Success, May 8.
D. ¡Delegates of the United Nations, in the last week- end before the British mandate ends in Pales. tine, were today ruofully confessing failure to solve the Holy Land problem and prevent civil war between the Arabs and Jews,
Badges admitting non-members to the Members" Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10 each day including tax are obtainable through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a Member, such Member to be responsible for all chits etc.
NOT Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will
bo sale at the RACE" COURSE,
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-_-_-_The_Treasurers' Compradore_Office will close at 9.30 am, each day. The Secretary's Office will clone at 11:45 am, the first day and at 10 am, on the second day. Both Office, at 1st Floor, Exchange Building.
A limited number of uffins wil be oblaltable at the Club Iluus provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27818).
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PRE- . MISES DURING THE MEETING,
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PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3 each day including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate,
Bookmaker, Tic Tac men, etc, will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Refreshments will be obtaloable in the Hestaurant in th Public Encinore.
SERVANTS' PASSES
Вод holders
Servants' passes will be issued to Private ONLY who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and to endorse their names on the passes. Holders of such passen are not permitted in the Members' Enclosure except for passing through on their duties but must remain in their em- ployers' stands.
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They saw 13 months of investigation, debate and planning, ending in nothing more than a tacit admission that the Palestine problem must solve itself.
central
The one ray of hope this i He gave the Sub-Committee to last week-end is that the Jews understand that he would not and Arabs, before launching refuse to serve on this into..full-scale war, may agree body invited.
On the question of immigra- to a truce. Palestine experts here consider the chances betion and land policy, Mr. Lisicky thought that the United Nations tween war and An uneasy body should not attempt to make regulations unless it had power to enforce them.
pence about equally divided.
Whether midnight on May 15 is the signal, however, for tnore violence or whether it bring a Temporary peace, the United Nations delegates realise that the most they can do is to sit back and await developments.
The present spertal session of General Assembly, cunvoked hurry, opened in an atmo- sphere of gloom. Everyone sus-" pected everyone else of bad faith. The United States plan trusteeship languished and finally shelved.
the in
No Moro
for
was
Peeress' Suicide American
Nawsbury, May 8,
A corondr's jury ruled that Lady Jean Coventry, 23, cont mitted suicide while batanes, of her, mind dieturbed.
the
Was
Lady Joan was found dead on Friday of nepirin polkon- Ing. Her mother, the Coun. less of Coventry, testified ahs hnd
had 能辨 unhappy love affair.-Associated Press.
Japanese Up To Their Old Tricks
Melbourne, May 9.
Economic
Plan For
Near East
Cairo, May 9.
The Cairo weekly newspaper, Akhbar El Yom said in an article under à Washington dateline that American ex - perts are working day and night on a plan for American financing of agriculturaï and Industrial projects in the Mid- dle East.
The newspaper adds the plan contemplates Inrge loans to Mid- die East Governments and is de- signed as
Com- un nnswer to munist propaganda,
Akhbar
Mr. John Fletcher-Cooke, Bri- -
said that the Palestine Gov- in, rnment had already given con- slciernble powers to local authori- ties, but there were services which had to be centralised, such picions that Japanese pearl as posts, railways and ports cus- fishing in the Southwest Paci- toms and excise and civil avia-fle was a cloak for espionage. Plestine.
The newspaper Reminiscent of pre-war sus-
tion.
it
among
EI
Yom criticized young men who, come to Egypt says, have Arnb
from refugees "We can accept wo- During the week-end Mr. Flan a Japanese fishing skipper has ea and children but we cannot Moc, (Norway) will try to draft been imprisoned for trespass-military age who escape
upen our doors to young boys of their a skeleton plan along the lines ing beyond the prescribed country while we send our youn so far discussed and submit to limits off New Guinea, Navy Palestine to die for the sake of boys-soldlers and officers to the Sub-Committee on Monday, -Reuter.
Headquarters revealed today.
these deserters," the newspaper Charged on information diven May 3, the Egyptian Gazette.
The United Nations,-in-the- last week-end before, the end of British rule, is thus
"Irreducible
HMS LONDON
NANKING
left mini.
AT
with the mum"-a British proposal to
set up a modest United Nations
Nanking, May 9.
call
the Nuvat vruiser, HMAS Australia, to the Supreme Allied reported that the Palestine Re- Headquarters in Japan, the cap-fugee Committee la: decided to
the tate of
400-ion Japanese bar able-bodied Palestine Arabs ushing vessel, Kose Maru, between 18 and 50 from taking WOR tried wus
In 11 Japanese refuge In Egypt. - Associated
agency to act as a "caretaker/ Admiral Sir Deals Boyd. Cum-curt and was sentenced to eight-Press- authority in Palestine until the mander-in-Chief of the British months' imprisonment and fined Arabe and Jews are ready to Pacifle Fleet, is expected to rench 36,000 yen. Navy Headquarters talk terms.
Nanking st 11.30 On Monday suit.
1 owners had In addition. A ruce in Jerusalem, and morning on a courtesy visit, plan to send a special municipal } Admiral Boyd
will
upon their fishing licence revoked and commissioner. there. are two President Chiang Kai-shek and were ordered by the court to sell other accomplishments of this members of the Government fur the vessel. session. The latter was a British ing his visit and will entertain a The Kose Maru was Intercepted
arge
number of important per near Herbert Island off New all to date, and, in the feonalities, both Chinese and for- Guinea by HMAS Australia, view of inforinud observers, that leign, of a reception on board which was returning from oc- Is all the United Nations can hope H.M.S. "London", the Admiral's cupation force duties in Japanese to do at the moment.
lagship on Monday morning. waters. A Naval boarding party
That
The United Nations Palestine Str Denis Boyd intends to leave found nothing suspicious aboard Sub-Committee today
heard
nanking on May 16 when the the vessel whose refrigerated statement from Mr. Lisicky, British ships sail for Shanghai.-hold carried 300 Lunny Ash.com
Chairman of the Palestine Com-Central News. mission, substantially supporting
the British proposil for a United Nations Committee as the "con- tinuing authority" in Palestine.
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"Caretaker"
The Sub-Committee la at- tempting to establish some kind of "caretaker authority" before the Britain.mandate ends on May 15. Lisicky zald that the competence
central
United Press.
Police Hunt For
Arab Recruiter
Sydney, May 8.
British Exhibit Opens In Moscow
London, May 9, Dame Edith Evan, head of the theatrical section of the British-Soviet. Society, today opened an exhibition "Shake- speare on the English slage" in Moscow, the Tass-newai agency reported.
The well-known British ac- tress brought from London, 132 lithograph engravings, photo-
of any Security police were today searching_for_a_man_alphand theatrical posters-re-
the
authority.
which United Nations might set up should be limited to what it really could perform.
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On
fecting beting-in-Britain-since
a
leged to have posed here as a recruiting officer the 18th Century, sald Tass. for the Arab Legion, the private army of King... Among the exhibits ure Abdullah of Transjordan.
Beatrical undated 1776 a The man was said to have Mr. Arthur Calwell. Iminigra-cuncing the staging of Macbeth and old engravings depicting taken deposits from intending tion Minister, “said Tuesday famous actors such as Sarah Sid- recruits as a guarantee that that his department was taking dons, David Carrick and Edmund they would honour their agree- every precaution to prevent Aus- Kean,
tralians volunteering for Arab or ments to go overseas,
Jewish forces, and all passports
Palestine," Earlier,
At the opening ceremony, Tass
Official Arab and Jewish sources were being cridorsed "Invalid for ned, Dame Edith told the Rus-
re-
both spid there were no cruiting agents here for their
forces.
sian gathering "Shakespeare was great humanist and if we all he had said that if love mankind as he did we shall There were unconfirmed reports people tried to get passports by better understand each other and
some Australians have al- subterfuge to go to Palestnic, they this will make us happier."
the Tass report was distributed In ready left for Palestine, signing would forfeit all claims to
that
Associated Press.
on as seamen on ships members protection of Australian Govern- London by the Soviet monitor. of whose crew had deserted-inment social services-Reuter. Australian ports. It was ald these men intended to desert ns near as possible to Arab terri-. tory.
Commenting on reports that big money had been. offered to Australian ex-servicemen to train Atab and Jewish troops, Mr. J. B. Chifley, the Prime Minister, said in Canberra on Monday that Australians going to Palestine to
Britain's Search
For Right Man
London, May 9.
assist either side could "expect The Foreign Office said that there is "good reason to
no consideration from us.”
Blood Bank
Contaminates
The
hope that our efforts” to find a special commis- sioner for Jerusalem affor the surrender of the -Mandatė "will be successful.”.
The United Nations Secre- "We are resolved to and B tary General, Trygve Lie, at. candidate," he said. "There is Lake Success on Friday teleas- good reason to hope that
vur
San Diego, Calif, May `9. ed à Britisn statement saying efforts will be successful."—Asso- The San Diego Blood Bank to-Britain could not find a suit claled Press.
day broadcast an urgent appeal eble candidate and therefore.
for donors to replace the con- wanted Jews and Arabs joint- taminated blood supply.
All blood here has been order to name one.
ed held for analysis.
The United Nations had asked Doctors said blood in banks all Britain to undertake the task. A.
Russians Sore
over the State might also be im Foreign Office spakcaman said With French
pure and that the shortage might, the British statement released by Le critical since there is a conic, was Interded to show only stant demand for blood.
Foreign matter was discovered Alan Cunningham could find no that the High Commissioner, Sir by the State Food and Drug Ad-candidate in Palestine. ministration in the bottles in
*Berlin, May D. The Russian-licenced German News Agency, ADN, reported to- day that French officials refused which blood is stored United "Never was there any question to permit a group of Russian Press,
of our giving a final report on
'newspapermen to visit the French the Assembly assignment on Fri-Zone in Germany recently.
The Agency said, the French day," the spokesman" sald. "The search La continuing. We are refused on grounds of the reor making it hore."
ganisation at present under way In the Zone. They also said, ac- cording to the Agency, they did
GERMANS FOR
S. -- AFRICA
Berlin, May 9.
The statement on Friday, in the The British Army in Germany form of a report to the United not want a tour going on while is recruiting 2,000 former Ger- man Army officers for service Nations was designed to show the London conference concern- with the British Army in South that we are taking the Generaling Western Germany to in-pro- Africa, according to a report pub Assembly seriously," the spokes STORE,
The French refulal............ caused ishod in the National-Zeitung man added.
great indignation among
the
today.
The report sald the transport He said, the Interim report was Russian journalists, especially bo- carrying the first 300 recruits left construed in some quarters as cause: French Journalsta havo Germany last month and another meaning we intended to throw repeatedly been given oppor- is scheduled to leave shortly within our hand." That, he said, tunity to travel through the-So- Im further 300.—United Press. was not the cas
viet" "Zone."--United Press. "
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