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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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Forms for the Eighth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 11th June, 1989 (weather permitting). may be obtained at the Boonetary' Office the Clab Hours, Happy Valley. the Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club, and the Stables, Village Bond
Entries close at 12 o'clock Noon on Thursday, 2nd June, 1932.
By Order,
S. A. BLEAP,
Acting Secretary.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL
T MEETING of Voting Mombers will be held at the Club Bond, Happy Valley, on Monday, 30th May, 1932, at 5.30 pm.
ALL Members are cordially invited to attend and participate in any dis cussion which may ensue.
By Order of the Stowards, 8. A. SLEAP,
Acting Boorotary. [2198
Hong Kong, 10th May, 1932.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 30,
thor arise, but despite all precau-- tions, their weakness ads them out and this is the glass that suffers most heavily
News
Tale of the Day.
The teacher was giving a lesson on Shakespeare's and St. George's Day, and he asked the inss what else happened on Shakespeare's birthday, April 99.
Small Voice:
Cup finall Sir"
1932.
and Views
Finvited tho daughter of a Balkan And to Lenin
diplomat to dance. Taking him for
British attaché, the lady nowopt o. But after one foxtrot the burden of supporting an inexperi- enced partner proved top grend for her, and so declined.. Missing Trousers.
Once
Another artist who was obliged to kneel in order to stady the faus of a colabrated modal is Mrs. Clare Sheridan. Benin, like Gandhi, stendily rofused to sit for his bust. The smost tennession be would make way to tolerate her presence in his room in the Krom- Ho lin.
The wreek of the Titanic in 1012) demonstrated that no ship was une ainkable A long period of im- 'munity in the cins of big lines had, moreover, allowed boat drill. and other precautions, and even the provision of boats, to sink into an the easy-going neglect based on nsumption that nothing could go wrong.
Then, as now, when safety clashod with the time schedule, the former was often sacrificed. The sinking of the Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence nos long after again showod that risks at sea had onces to be conducted. It was when tary. Thossecretary walked into the bowed over the papers on his desk, not been eradicated by "more size in France he took over from. Sir valet's bedroom and found the man and in order to study Lenin's face,
of ships. Essential improvements woto made in all directions, but only after nearly three thousand lives had been lost. There are those who resent the light, discipline of a well-run liner, but they ought to
Lord Trenchard's Way.
This is the way in which Lord Trenchard, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, likes confer-
David Henderson the command of the R.F.C in the field. He called a conference of his chief officers and began thus :—
The next morning the Foreign Seerotary missed his trousers. rang for his valet, but there was no reply. At hust ho awoke a secre
1
But he kept his head, obstinately
the sculptress was forced, to kneel on the floor in front of the desk
and peor up at him.
alceping with Lord Curzon's trou- sers clasped in his embrace.
The valot was summoned to the Foreign Sorrotary's presonce, Thero |
While she was thus ongagod both was a short and sharp encounter, artist and model heard a two.
sudden in which majesty replied to majesty. howl of laughter. It came
"Gentlemen, there are kinds of conferences; one when one
from
know by now that a ship is not of men addresses it; the other when and then the valet departed for the imp-lika Radek, who had been
moving hotel and these who trife with the sea will suffer: sooner or later...
everyone talks and no one listons.
Then he added: "I have never held a conference of the second kind,"
M. Tardisu.
Improved instrumenta af navi gation, wireles meteorological services and a rigid enforcement of Board of Trade regulations still
M. Tardieu has the reputation of rave the failure of the human being the best informed Minister in element was a source of risk. The Europe. His precise knowledge is Titanio was sunk because the officer the reward of hard work and of his journalistin training, For twenty on watch forgot that most of an years he has kept the most elabo iceberg is under water. He avoid-rate system of press cuttings, and ed the obstacle that he saw and the to-day there is hardly a political personality or subject which does invisible enemy tore out the ship's not figure in his Bles. side. JOSEPH CONRAD described in t his book "The Mirror of the Sea"
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Boy Batsman Hita Tráin.
While Ashby-de-la-Zouch
London, mournful but still dignified.
Older.
The consumption of 'cider is on the increase all over England. Formerly seen but rarely in Londen restaurants, it is now a favourite drink at launch time. One of the test devices is to add a touch of gin to it to give it body.
Several clubs are now Holling draught sider.
Dr. Anna May Wong.
lying rending newspapers CH A sofa in Lenin's room and whose malicious eye had just perceived, the comedy of the situation.
versatility of L. G. Crawley.
L. G. Crawley is not one of those who believes that golf interiores with cricket or cricket with golf. Ho hopes to play cricket fairly re- gularly for Esaux this season, until he has to begin serious practice for the Walker Cup matches in The University of Peiping has just conferred on Miss Anna May, America later in the summer. Wong an honorary degree of doctor. Crawley has played both games. The diplomn states that the consistently. He is the amateur honour has beon, granted to her for (Leiber services in propagating abroad golf champion, and upon his one ye another incalculable peril. iscestershire) Grammar School boys"the beauty, charm and intellig-appearance in first-class cricket laat
were practising at cricket on a ence of the women of China.' lagged hulk that haunt all seas:
ground beside the L.M.S." railway line, one of them, C. Apenor, made The loss of the Georges Philippara fine drive of 70 yards to leg, and the ball went through a window in gives a new warning. How the fire passing passenger train. The that destroyed the ship started is railway company, apparently mis- taking the incident for a boyish prank, wrote to the
sehool asking for the names of the boys who had been playing. It is understood that the reply whe that the school would willingly pay for the damage to the carriage window, but that the drive was not regarded as a blot on the school's escutcheon.
the uncharted rock thrown up by
seismic upheavals.
Daily Press. es important than, the manner in
Hong Kong, May 30, 1932,
SHIPPING RISKS.
Lausanne
The Lausanne Conference will open in the third week of June. gation who were present at the first Those members of the British dele
which it spread. Fires aboard ship Plenty of are common enough. water is available and the trouble is usually unimportant. A fused wire, cigarette end, metal or a mirror acting as a burping glass, an outbreak in any may causo vessel, and such dangers cannot be Ir was a long cry from the Georges eliminated. The lavish lacquer and Philippar, the beautiful Froch enamel and all the beautiful fittings HE_Undersigned lava received ship, that looked as if she had been ware. it has been suggested, fuel THE
made of ivory, to the humble of a kind unprecedented in slip-Lausanne Conference in 1923 will ferry launch Hoi Kun, which sank board fires. Decorators of, luxury on Friday evening in the Pearl liners may have to call a halt to River.
Both, however, have been their lavish ingenuity. Probably reminders that risk still attaches no thought has ever been given to to travelling by water. Curiously the danger arising from an crua two big menthtion, furnishing and design shipping mishaps; the .s. Grecian modelled on hotels and departing why sunk near: New York in a dense from the axioms of ship-construe fog and the I Lang was loat with tion. Safety first still has to take heavy casualty list in the Yangtze precedence, even over the whims of millionaires, when it is a question Gorges.
of dealing with the sea.
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Though shipwrecks are few com. pared with the vast number' of vessels plying both inland and doop. sea waters it is obvious that much ramaina to ba floge to reduce the Curtain great ship. toll of the sea. ping companies of all nations have brought their lowes to what would seem the irreducable minimum, and
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Teak and Brass Bedsteads, Stan-part of the vessels met in crowded, Friday night. dard Lamps, Looking glasses, Baby Cot, Ics Cheats, Crockery, Tea Sets, Fire Screen, Cabin Trunks, Table, Lamps, Vases, Ceiling Fan, Table Fan, Brass Trays, Baby Pram, etc.,
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fairways and during thick weather. Roberts, who as the time, was in The popular belief is that a well- company with Private S. J. Owene found ship should ride out the and Private D. J. Prier, bath of the
In point of fact same regiment, pleaded not guilty. worst weather evory-typhoon, in the area affected In the witness box, the driver by these disturbances, and every bad paid the party engaged his vehicle storm in the Atlantie seer a number at the Ferry Wharf. They intended of losses. The wrock of the Kwong to go to the Peak bit on reaching Sang is still vivid in our minds, Stubba Rond, they changed their and two years ago the Vestris was minds and decided to return to the
not re-enter the hospitable portals" of the Hotel Beatrivage without vivid memories of that earlier and singular occasion
No conference was more fruitful
There was the assassination of the in tragic or in comic incidents, Soviet delegate, M. Vorovsky, Switzerland of a journalist, accused of making a midnight naunuit on a Rumanian delegate.
There whs the expulsion from
And finally there was the richly comic and justly celebrated incident of Lord Curzon's valet and the Foreign Secretary's missing trou-
Hers.
In Scofety.
The valet in question had long interested fellow guests in the hotel. He had successful imitated the bearing" of his employer, and one of the few distractions of this tedious Conference was to watch the valet usher Lord Curzon into the hotel lift.
On the evening the valet made an appropriate entry into society. He
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While China reserves her distine-senspn he made a very fine 80 for tions for her own film star, the Essex,
A versatile athlete, he is a triple Japanese are more modern. Tokyo has presented beautiful gold Cambridge Blue, having gained his kimono, such as is worn only by the Imperial family on great State colours for cricket, golf, and rack- occasions, to Miss Marlene Dietrich ets. as a token of its gratitude for her magnificent acting,
Schoolboy Golfers.
Although football and cricket in their respectivo seasons are con- sidered to be the most important games for public school boys, masters no longer discourage pupils from taking up golf during the vica- tion. The rapid development of the boys golf championship is evidence schoolboy golf. of the growing tolerance, towards
knelt to the Mahatma.
He made the biggest score of his cricket career in 1923, when he | hit up 222 against Glamorgan.
A. Ginger Brotherhood.
A brighter cricket experiment. was arranged by Mr. B. H. Lyon: says a Home paper: On April 30 he will lead Gloucestershire against an All Comers' XI. in a match in which each side will be allotted only three hours for batting.
The Lyon scheme proceeds from the brain not of "B. F," but of his elder brother, "M. D.," the Somerset wicket-keeper and open- ing batsman."
It is set out pithily and with Mr. Oswald Birley's rejected Aca- considerable force of argument in demy painting of Gandhi is pro- Mr. M. D. Lyon's new book on bably the best portrait of the meck crieket, which will be published in inmate of Prona Gaol ever paiat a few days. ed.
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Gandhi is not easy to paint; for although courtesy itself to the artists who importune him for Hard on Tennis, sittings, he will hot interrupt bis! This book, I imagine, will caus
3 flutter among literary or political labours to something of
cricket lovary. It is controversial post for them..
His book will irritate lawn Mr. Jo Davidson, the well-known American sculptor, who made a tennis players, for, greatly daring, very successful bust of the Mahat- he sets out a list of games in the COMPANY MEETING. ma during the Round Table Con-order of skill which they demand. ference; admitted Gandhi Cricket comes fret, followed by billiards, roal tennis, steadfastly refused to sit in such a golf,
and "rugger.." Lawn position that his head could be "OCCO,"
tennis comes last-after ludo and modelled.
Most of the time he allocated to spilliking!
Mr. Lyon himsel is the sculptor he spent in sleeping
that
no maan
in a blanket stretched on the floor, lawn tennis player. He was one of Cambridge and Mr." Davidson was obliged to the two cricketers
at
go down on his hands and kness in who in a doubles match defeated order to examine the features of the, the University first lawn tennis
pair. dormant Mahutoon.
Local Notes and Events
The name of Our Store, Limited, has been strack off the Register.
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Through falling into a dry dock a distance of about 30 feet, a work
of the Taikoo Dodis. Nam Fung, received a fractured skull
His Excellency the Offer Ad ministering the Government has ap. pointed Dr. J. W Anderson to be a Member of the Medical Bourd, for a term of three years.
MESSRS. A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
DIRECTORS PEES INCREASED.
An increase of feex to. $1,500 per anuum for each Director other than the ex-Officio Director of Messra. A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd., was confirmed at an extraordinary gen. eral meeting of the Company hold"
Aл
Satur.
The engagement is announced, in the Hong Kong Hotel on
take day. and, the wedding will soon place in England, between. Miss
The resolution was originally Zelinda Angelica. Ozorio, youngest daughter of Mr. J. A. Ozorio and placed before extraordinary the late Mrs. Ozorio, of Swatow, and Mt. A F. Pritchard, son..of general meeting on May 12 as an Mr. and Mrs. A. Pritchard of "The Grange, Sutton Coldfield, War extraordinary resoluticu, when it wickshire. The bride left for Home was unanimously possed and the meeting held on Saturday was ju the nature of a confirmatory meet- ing
It is notified that during the ab Four cases of pateric fever and Bence on leave of Senor Don Pari two of cerebrospinal fever were cio Smart-Fabras, Consul for Chile on May 21 reported on Friday. There was a in Hong Kong, Mr. Antonio Botelho, Chitral.
on the P. &.0. s..
lost, partly by bad judgment, St. Francis Hotel. Later they re loan bili of health for Tharaday will be in charge of the Chilean-Charged before Mr. Wynne-Jones
?
Consulate..
at Contral Magistracy on Saturday.
The resolution was proposed by but maluly owing to the pitiless turned to the Peak -when-the-moter.
with being in the Colony without a battering by hurricane seas. The road $1.10, Hoverts was willing to It is notified that Mr. Philip i
Jakks has resumed duty as Land At to-morrow's meeting of the passport, Dimitri Lazebovich Maze the Churman (Mr Henry Ham
dousky, a Jugo-Slavian, was 6071- existance of the elaborate lifeboat, pay only 82 and an argument en Officer on the termination of his Rotary Club, Major E. C. Duclos, I tenced to seven days' hard labour phreya) and seconded by Mr. F. D. service round the British coast. is. sned, during the coures of which appointment to be an additional the newly-appointed, Trade Commis-
sioner for Canada in Hong Kong, Detective Sergt. Mottinm said that Humphreys. in itself evidence of the power of Roberts was alleged to have struck Judge of the Supreme Court.
Supporting the Chairman at the will speak on Economic Cond the defendant applied in Canton
last year for a visa for Hong Kong meeting wore Moars. J. Scott the storm over all but the strongest Yuen Far
His Excellency the Officer Adtions in Canada."
but the LGPa, on being approach. віра.
ministering the Government has ap
od, said he could not grant this. Harston, A. B. Stewart and A Ħ. The world of shipping has a long
pointed Mr. John Charles Lang to The orchestral concert organised However, Makedousky was later White (Directors), and J. A. Tar. way to go before the old crocks are
net ne Assistant Secretary to the by the China Light & Power, Re found in Kowloon and was sent rant (Socratary). Shareholders Sanitary Board
creation Club which took place on back to Canton, He came back oliminated. It is true that vessels of doubtful soundness are mainly Lieut. Cresswell, S.W.B., said kapt to coastal and inter-island that Roberts way a good, clean
After hearing the soldiers story, the Magistrate remarked that the defence was very unsatisfactory and imposed a fine of $10.
trade where they arɔ supposed to he soldier, and had never had a charge seldom out of sight of land and able of this nature brought against him to run to shelter should bad wen. before.
The weekly whist drives organis by the Police Recreation. Und will be remmed on Tuursday, at 8.30 p... at the Club's pavilion at Happy Valley.
the Club's ground, King Park, on again on Saturday, and in giving present were Messrs. J. D. Hum Saturday night was an unqualified himself up told the polier that he phreys, G ER Divait D E. succois a very large crowd being was en route to Shanghai where he Clark, J. L Quie, W. O: Lee, Peter. present, It is understood that part learned Jugo-Blavians were being of the proceeds will be donated to repatriated, and that bis desire was Wong, J. M. Wong, and Wong Kin. local charities.
to go with them.