DEATH OF EARL OF OXFORD AND ÄSQUITH.
of
(Continued from page 7).
rock vigorous nature
the The hardness of youth has since
mensures taken for the ultimate been somewhat toned down; ad-
Increase of Great Britain's contri- Whether this enormous vanding years have given rather bution. more warmth and humanity to Mr. evergy could in any case have been Ampith's periods. But his the; I maintained is a question that can- style of speaking, though of great not be resol Fod. It de scaredly marit, was somewhat too bare and subtful that it was not maintain bloodless to delight a generation ed. The formation of the First secustomed to the Victorian grund Coalition Government may have MININOR, A batter description proceeded from Mr Asquith's con could not be than that of Mr.victions that new blood was neces Asquith's present wife when she sary, or it may have been forced on was still Miss Tennant and a com-him by quite different considera parative stranger ?
tions; but in any case the fall of
He has 20
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1928.
THE RACES. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4.)
The Ogasolation Stakas: One Xilė.
vitally important no pains are too great; he will go over the whole thing, line by line and word by word. submit and resubmit it to criticism, and part with it only when he is assured, that it cannot be bettered In pineparing state- ments meant for American reading,
Willner $600; second $200; third for example, he is unfinitely carefu! $100. For China ponies that have not to employ any expression, bow started at least twice as this Meet ever correct according to our ugeing and have not won. Weight for which might have a different shade
inches as per scale. (Jockey allow of meaning on the other side of the Atlantic.
ance. Entrance $3.
Mr. KH. Hay's Captain, 159 lbs.Mr. J. Pote Hunt) Mr. R. M. Austin's Grey Knight, 158 lbs...(Mr. A. J. P. Heard)
Goblin, 136 tbs
11
YESTERDAY'S SWEEP WINNERS.
CHINESE GIRL TAKES 336,000,
PRIZE
A race meeting of any size always brings unexpected wealth to several People and this one has been no exception., The Champion Stakes cash sweep, with $36.000, went to an attractive young Chinese lady, name, address and occupation not known, bought ticket No. 608 at the Taiping Theatre. The winner of the Mr. F. Pidein third prize in the same draw was
very good foiva-and-Charana the LibraAdministration word cause he is also, with all his limita- | Messrs-Hall and Shenton's TheIn the Chub"Lusitano draw Mr.-E.
qualities that make a grent speaker imagination restraint, brevity, and l'oreille jurte, He does not strain the attention by discursive parentheses, and is neither too pre cious, too pedantic, nor tes prepar od to be listened to with confidence and pleasure."
practical confession of failure somewhere or somehow.
|
"A Wholly Trus Man,” But, after all, Mr. Asquith is a wholly truthful man, chiefly in
tion, & wholly true man Behind his intellectual accomplishment is a character that extorts respect from all who are themselves worthy of being respected. He is not least English in his complete honesty The machine of his mind may not be fitted for some work, but it s true and well wrought. His character may lack some of the gracos, but its foundations are es adamant The victim of much small meatness he is himself incap- able of anything small or meal. Opinions may vary widely ns to Mr. Asquith's political game, But the nudid observar must admit that he has "always played it, like a gentleman.
A Kindly Man.. Indeed, there are features of his character and general habit of mind which would largely explain such failure. Though he prefers to give the world an impression of Did Not Advertise,"
coldress, he is really a most kind- Higher praise in its kind couldly man, in whom leyalty to friends get on age not be given; but this style of and the desire to speaking was hardly even caviare dangerously prone to affect Judg. the select of those days, But ment." Macsalay has remarked there was probably a deeper reason that the worst of all rulers is he for the failure to recognize in the who puts the feelings of the be young Home Secretary something sees daily before the interests of more than the ordinary" careerish the millions he will never see and lawyer. Mr. Asquith has at no who will sacrifice a distant pro- time given the impression af alice in order to be surrounded by that is in him. He does not adver- siling faces. Mr. Asquith, who time. He has dever cultivated the has been described as
the com- Press He has made no obeisance rade rather than the chief of his to the mob, even to the mob called fellow-Ministers, would no doubt society. He diedaing af kinds of not consciously neglect a public isplay, and habitually understates duty on account of a private par
personality. Moreover, he tiality. But in fact his policy tüdens economy of often suffered because it pained effort, almost amounting to miset him to throw over a friend or irked liness. There are some statesmen him to put tris foot down on a who give the impression of being rebel It was so in peace, and it Rodefinably abow their best in pe has been so in war. Á wise regard formance; there are others who ou
for national unity haa, it may ension constant surprise, nut
be suspected, sometimes been rein- that they fail to acquit themselves forerd by dieindination to be d' well, but that, they are able to agreeabin. Moreover, he is an easy carry out their functions at all. man in another sense. The word Mr. Balfour is the great living re- | "indolent" might be more necur presentative of the former type. Aately used but for the fact that Het, cast at random anywhere, init is so little understood how much Whitehall would secure a specimen of the best work of the world is of the latter. Mr. Asquith occupies done by indolent people. Mr. an almost unique position between | Asquith posseries immense reserves
exercisero A
these extremes,
↑
of mental energy, but, like many millionaires, he bikes to keep Inge balance and has an objection to drawing cheques. He can get through the work of half a dozen men when presed, but he profers la ecoramize effort when néesible. This tendency has been the main cause of the many embarrassments in which he has been involved. Again and again, before the war, ic looked as if the Government must fall when Mr. Asquith, has put matters right by a master-piece of legendemain. But this very skill in saving desperate situations, and loosing the most fearsome tangle familiar as his garter" only proves the existence of a weakness.
¦
Strength Without Mystery. He has never, like Mr. Balfour, waggested д vague andi. even disappointing superiority, mak- ing one feel that the result is less than it ought to bo The generally appeurs adequate, and a little more, to the particular task in hand, while somehow failing to give the idon of supreme power. One might summarize by saying that he has wrength without mystery. He shows an easy mase tery, an almost''careless competence, as that of an express locomotive which always has the เต ́haid " even on its fastest run.
atendy mechanical puff contrnsta
Hover Replied To Attacks. with the laboured panting of some Little ahunting engine; it does its But if it may reasonably, be con- regular filty miles an hour, rises tended that Mr. Asquith has most now and again to seventy, and real defects as a chief Minister, night do a hundred for all one and that those defects were reflect- koows. But there is no witchery | ed in his war administration, com- in the busines, exurpi perhaps to mon gratitude should have recog a savage: indeed, it is rather the nised the great value of his con- other way: the splendour of the tribution to the common stock, and
Mary case.
་་
. Its
performance is obscured by its
[CRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] FAMILY WITH HIM AT THE END.
RECHY, Feb. 15th.
On Monday he became gravely ill from acute pharyngitis and his family were summoned, most mem- bers arriving before he lost con- minusness and all were with him at the end.
With his death Britain loses one of her most distinguished states- men, universally respected and loved. By intellect, character and achievement. he was unmistakably avory great man. In early days, Asquith showed the qualities of his mind at Oxford and afterwards at law. As a lawyer he quickly made a reputation and became Queen's Counsel in 1890. Four years earlier be entered Parliament as a Liberal. where he soon distinguished himself and, in 1992, Gladstone recognised his qualities by appointing him Home Secretary. In the next Liberal administration, in 1905. he was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Sir Henry Campbell Banner man, on whose death, in 1903, he
was chosen Premier.
His Premiership lasted eigh: years, ending in 1916, when he re wgned and a Coalition Ministry under Mr. Lloyd George was formed.
Pilot Of Far Reaching And Pro-
gressive Measures.
1
Mr. G. W. Sewell) 3 Cordeira of Saigon, Mr. H. Carvalho Also ran Fire Call (r. Wal of Macao and a Tientsin resident, Jace), District Call (Mr. Durlacher), name unknown, draw the first three. Chick Te (Mr. Charles), Waichownic (Mr. Erskine), August (Mr. Bul- teel), Grey Eyes (Mr. G. U. da Roza).
Under bis guidance from 1908 to outbreak of war Parliament placed upon the statute book many far-reaching and progressive da suree. Domestic controversies were, Eowever, completely overshadowed by the war clouds that loomed over Europe in the Summer of 1914) TIL was during those days of crisis that Asquith showed the true, qualities of his greatness for his character and judgment underwent a strain sevare as any man in the whole of history. He realised clearly the consequences of moderni terrible warfare between the great nationa upon questions of expediency bu of ethics. It was the standpoint of national honour tha: guided his judgment when Britain, under his Leadership, entered the war to maintain her word to uphold the. integrity of Belgium. The bitter decision taken, his mind was set on measures for ultimate victory.
"We Shall Not Sheath.
Time: 2.08.
Won by four lengths.
Puri Müturl.
Winner
Place 1st
**
2nd 3rd
A ¡Cath Sweep 1st, No. 4...... end... 453
HONG KONG CHAMPIONS.
CLUB LUSITANO DRAW.
The sweepstakes organised by the Club Lusitano on the Hong Kong Champions was divided as follows
1st prize
$27,975.00 7,700.001 3,885.00 2,180,00 2.IGN.00
$13.10 640
6.10
0.70
2nd
3rd
$3,790.60 1,085.00
3rd, 1312........... 542.80 Usplaced ponies of $50 each :- Nos, 283, 976, 454, 794, 3, 617. A
The N Desperandum Stakes: Five Furlongs, Winner 2000; second $200; third 8100. For subscription griffins of this Meeting that have started at least twice and have not won. Weight for inches as per calc. (Jockey Allowance.) Entrance $3. Mr. Eve's Twilight Eve, 135-lbs.
(Mr. Pote Hunt) 1
The Hoa. Mr. Hynes and Mr. C. Gordon Mackie's Peter, 152 lbs(Mr. A. J. P. Henrd), Mr. C.T.C.'s Northern Stag, 155
lbs.(Mr. H. Harriman) 3 Also ran-Social Call (Mr. Dur- lacher), Madeira (fr. G. U. da Roze), Busaco (Mr. Erskine), Green Slip (Mr. Prouix). Easing Wold (Mr. FT. Stanton). Liberty Hall (Mr. Wong), The Haugh (Mr. Mait- land). Berwick (Major Wolfe- Murray), Skipper (Mr. Bulteel), Zes (Mr. Rocha), The Grouse (Mr. Sewell), Kan (Mr. Clarke), Tarzan (Mr. Reidy), Fook Shau (Mr. Lon), Brown Jug (Mr. Wallace). Shingle (Mr. Charles).
Time: 1.18. Won by half a length. Pari Muturi.
Winner Pince 18t
2nd
3rd
Cash Surrep 1st, No. 1300...... 2nd.
O... 3rd, 816.... Nos. 210 95, 857, 1160, 371,-1909, "Unplaced ponies of $50 each:-
1085, 1012 177, 334,350,92), 690, 1220, 1450,"
WINNING OWNERS.
Mr. L. Dubbar Mr. Eve Mr. Dynasty...
Mr. C Mackie
Hon. Mr. Eynes and
Gordon
Reidy Mr.He Kom Tong...... Mrs. Dunbar Major Lake Mr. Seth
common decency should have pre vented the base outery against him Thus it was that, even in his when he left office. The cold magn. Liberal Imperialist days, Mr. anhnity with which he has passed and his decisions were based pot Messrs. Stanton and Asquith was counted sennil to a over much publie "ânjustice and 4rilliant trifler Bike Lord Rosebery much private treachery is a quality tbut it was considered quite peculing to him. Few men have natural that he should serve under been attacked with more virulence: a mediocrity like Sir Henry Camp he is almost alone in never reply
ll-Bannerman: and rather aning to such attacks. Yet his for- natural that on the death of the beance does not conciliate, and latter King Edward should send is probably not meant to do so. for him as the only obvious Prime There is indeed, something enor Minister. Mr. Lloyd George and mously insulting in his professed Mr. Churchill were far inore in the indiference-professed caly, for he public es: Mr.. Haldane had achieved a success apparently as solid and rather more picturesque; Sir Edward Grey enjoyed a per haps larger. prestige.
Spokesman Of The Nation, The reputatices which had been impaired by a practical breakdows of government in the spring and partially restored during the first months of the war. Mr. Asquith then e es, if not as a great war Minister, at least as the splendid spokesman
Summer
of
1014
Was
at bottom a sensitive man and
Ho made, after the outbreak of war, a sprech defining Britain's ob- Figations, which contained a presage
Mr. H. P. White Mr. Moon," Mr. K.H.K. Mr. Hada. Mr. H. L. Yeung Mr. Luen Yick Messrs. Dyer and Beith 1 Mr. Chan, Tin Sion
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Cat Call
12258
Social Call
9829
Pattenbush
3013
Barley Grass
8007
Pitchfork
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Madeira
5500
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Northern Stag
8078
Southern Stag
7461
Handsome Stag
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Winsome Stag
8319
Chui Chow Ning
9490
Yuen Sin
1731
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Green Slip
13111 *183
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11830
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3091
92.60
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783-1
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8090
Deepwater Bay
0824
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9103
Hudson Bay
4411
Bay of Greenland ......
513
Bay. of Iceland
10103
Sitting Bull
4026
Geronimo
15220
Easing Wold
1000A
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Tangle
9120
Loch Lomond II.
1041
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Loch Tay
7458
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Dundee
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King of Hearts
8100
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King of England
8320
King of the Plajos....
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Young Pretender
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Heir Apparent
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Bright Eve
1907
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Misty Ere
Festive Evo
9958
New Year's Eve
6720
Boxing Eve
1328
Gap Rock
Gala Eve
2868
Shanghai Friend
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Twilight Eve....
8712
Tap Siac
4923' 1059
Horsford
5937
Flash Star
10000
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Soho
7019
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8102
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The Gannet
7800
Warlordship
15201
The Goblin
15349
4180
The Gomeril
7035
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The Geezer
10700
November
8819
The Ghome
4438
Dobbin
220
Sunning...
3421
Skidoo
1378
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Chick To
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Ukelele
3767
Little Sit Tang
8084
Humdinger
2184
Iron General
4281
Scooter
-9131
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7862
Mish Mish
8587
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Man of War
12251
Boukra
9672
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4607
Spinner
17090
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9504
Slipper
7107
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Lye Green
2196
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Blackstone Hall
9408
Liang River
1563
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7121
Little River
9105
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1416
Grande del Norte
5041
Artistic Hall
500
Mowgli
1061
Manor Hall
4500
Mayfair
10704
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19301
Cumberland
4002
Temple Hall
5218
Silver Fox (late Saga-
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10203
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9218
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9710
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Peck
3652
16145
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Peter
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Pepper
10200
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9067
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Opium Dick
8071
Circe
9791
Chemal
1513
The Grouse
7195
Comrade
10630
Sidi Bishr
1002
Captain
6883
Hugar Lost
7 4 5
Golly
4408
Код
5403
4
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Sea Front
6823
Baloo
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Dumfries
0399
Bootlegger (late Dick
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3581-
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Duke of Artagnan (late
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7402
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Tarzan Sutherland
1430
7008
6860
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Bing Boy Bad Boy
3875
5389
34
Fook Shau
6402
Loongwa
13023
Warrington
*2077
1808
Macao Beauty
4851
Brown Jug
0411
San Francisco (late San
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10208. 3177
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7402
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frels keenly wounds he diadalon to betray by a wines or a whimper or
that became household words: "We a retort. He will go to immens shall not sheath the sword, which pains to defend a colleague when we have not lightly drawn; uatil Mr. CAT.C the colleague is in the right, and Belgiam has regained all and more Mr. George when he himself is concerned slan- He let in those early war years a often when be is in the wrong; but than all that she has. sacrificed. Mr. F. Usher...... der goes unanswered. Like Wil-
Mr. A. J. Paterson... 0 ham III, when asked why he did country united in face of the Mr. Loo Chuck Luen... o
enemy transcending all party issu's Mr. H. B. L. Dowbig. not notice foul libel, he would and the debt the nation owes to him doubtless say,
gin c'était audessous de moi."
"J'ai pensé que for his calm and steady judgment Messrs. Hall and Shen-
ean neveer be fully estimated.
ton A Man Of Veracity.
While he was still Premier he Mr. Hee Cheong of the nation. He is often sovared | Few politicians, too, can boast suffered sore bereavement by the Mr. Wayfoong at as a mere howyer. But it was so complete an iminunity from any death of his brilliant son, Raymond Mr. Richardson the lawyer's horror of Prussian form of untruth. There have been who was killed in action.
Mrs. Priestley. Messrs. dawlessness that moved the man so times when it seemed impossible to
Usher
and Moving Tributer. tremendously as to give his earlier believe that Mr. Asquith was stat-
Reidy wat speeches the moral fervour of ing, the facts, yet circumstances statesmen have been
"Moving tributes to the great Messrs. K. C. Lau and made by a crusade as well as dhe balance i have always established his absolute
H. C. Lee Th numerous colleagues and political Messrs. and precision of a statesman, Mr. veracity in spirit and in letter.
Tester and Asquith's words at this time were It is, indeed, little short of mar-
opponents,
Abraham Lard Cecil said: The Earl of Mr. H of almost incalculable worth to the vellous that he is so seldom bety Oxford was a great and a good r. K. L. Yung Allies in a world still largely ed into unconscious inaccuracies. frinn and in his death he has left Mr. Benard aeutral, by no means unfriendly, to But his principles are fixed, if is
A gap which cannot be filled by any Germany on general grounds, and shows some spectability in detail; kopoly critical of all kinds of pre- he has really what is rare enough a live to-day. He never claim teasions. A mishandling of our to-day, a political philosophy. Fowed for himself merit that belonged another and indeed not always case might have had the gravesten more consistently refer to first morit that belonged to himself. effects; it was, in fact, handled principles in dealing with problems And so it has sometimes happoned, Mr. Pote Hunt"
Mr. Maitland with supreme skill.
of the moment; and, knowing him- Administration was also charac self how to run, it is easy to cially during, the war that Mr. Haimovitch merits of his administration Mr. Heard...... terized by great energy and judg. understand that he has some con-
the failures to himself. But he Mr. Charles ment. With narvellous emooth-twmpt for those who know only how the turbuted to others and all Mr. Wong ned, considering the tremendous to declain. His anchory is extra never complained. There may be Mr. Stanton blow delivered to, the habits and ordinary; his intellect is always other men in great position who Mr. Ueber
centuries, the under control; and his language, have been more admired, but Mr. G. U. da Roza prepossessions of
It 3 doubt if there have been any who Mr. Loo transition was made from a state though precise, is guarded. of profound peace to a state of probably. Hittle knows how much
have been more loved” “
Mr. Bulteri "Lord Oxford was one of the Mr. Harriman war on every ocean and in almost care often goes to the composition every continent. Mr. Asquith has outrances which, fil the discera noblest and most gifted statesmen Mr. Erskined hem asmiled both for our unpre-ing critics with despairing admin the history of our country. paredness for wor, and for the de- tion. Asquith can, indeed Mr. Ramsay Macdonald said. "He Mr. Proulx
Mr. Sewell LI lay with which, after the actual peaks well without any kind of
was a great figure and to those who Mr. Reidy declaration, our latent resources preparation. His mentality is have been long with him in the were made available. The faller disciplined, and has instimet for House of Commons his passing knowledge of another generation the right word is so infallible, that must cause a very keen pang will probally reader an entirely his impromptus are scarcely Jess different verdiet. It will lay strem clear-ent in their Ironze aSSİVE- on the speed with which moderateness than his more elaborate efforts. existing means were mobilized, on But when he is engaged as a speech the astonishing-effdiency of their document which he regards as employment, and on the wide scope (Continued on next Column.)
L
2
Mr. Clymes, Labour leader said: Ho was the most tolerant of men to opponents and the most loyal and helpful leader and colleague to his friends (Continued of foot of next column,)
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1
(Continued on nezt Column.)
|| Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Grey" are among many others who
1 have paid tributes to the late
statesman: 2
Load Reading said: "He was 1 great man and a great gentleman with a fine and noble character having complete freedom from enmity, jesicusy, nottiness and all form of self-seeking (Continued at foot of next column.)
Grandson Succeeds In Title. The Earl of Oxford and Asquich is succeeded in the title by his twelve year old grandson, whose father, Raymond Asquith, eldest -son-of-the-late statesman, was-kill-
ed in the early days of the war.
O'Moon
August
Harlene Erstwhile
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4558
4802
11015
WINNERS OF DERBY
SWEEPS.
South China A‚Á‚
1. $151,200 (Mrs. A. E. M
Rafeck)..
2. 843,200 (Man Yuen);
3. $21,000 (Mau Fung Woo Co.).
Chinese Club.
1. $100,500 (Mr. Wong Kam Fuk)
A, G. E. Ste
Begarty and Start).
Zama Orib
Sitting Bull, 10187, Leung Pob.
Singapore.
Young Pretender, 18037, Wong Ah
Ying, Singapore.
Leung.
Craigangower 0.0.
Sitting Bull, 883, J. Hickey, $620,
Young Pretender, 592,
phens, 8282.50.
New Year's Eve, 423, J. Smith,
$157.50.
Kowloon 0.0.
1. $3,109.08 (Mr. S. Thompson).
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to-morrow and Saturday, commenc
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