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OFF-DAY AT THE RACES.
KEEN FINISHES THIS AFTERNOON.
OUTSIDER PAYS OVER $400
FOR A WIN.
EXCELLENT SPORT.
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X AT SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929, 日一廿月正
The "Of Day" of the 1929 Race .Meeting drew a large crowd of turf enthusiasts to Happy Valley this afternoon. There was again a programme of eleven events, of which the main was the Profes- sonol Cup and Subscription Grif- fins Championship.
R.A.F. COLLISION IN LIBERAL LEADER
MID-AIR.
OFFICER KILLED; SERGEANT
ESCAPES IN CHUTE.
|RAREST OF ACCIDENTS,
London, Mar, 1. Flying Officer'Senly Allin, of the Royal Air Force, was killed In- stantaneously at Kenley to-day, as the result of one of the rarost
IN FORM.
BIG PROMISES BY MR. LLOYD GEORGE.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT?
of mishaps, collision in mid-air SOCIALISTS LAGGING?
in the course of formation flying.
The cause of the tragedy is not. yet known, at Flying Ocer Al- In'a machine crashed into another, piloted, by Flight-Sergeant Free man, at a height of three thousand feet, in full view of the R.A.F. Aerodrome at Kunloy.
The pilot of the other machine The sweeps and the pari-mutuel when he found he was going dowa out of control, scrambled out of were well patronised, poaters who had met with little or no sac-the cockpit and jumped clear with ces on the first three days of the parachute and landed safely on Meeting hoping to recoup them the roof of one of the hangers at
selves,
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London, Mar. 1.
the rehabilitation of the country Mr. Lloyd, George's schemes for and the solution of the unemploy- most problem were fully set out to-day at a luncheon given in London to the Liberal candidates
SUDDEN REVOLT IN THE MINERS FUND
PEKING.
EX-NORTHERN TROOPS GET OUT OF HAND.
GUNMEN CO-OPERATE.
Poking, Mar, 1. The western section of Peking was panic strickon this morning when a regimont of ex-Northern troops suddenly revolted.
clothed gunmen accosted some Just after dawn, twenty plain- Shoost guards In the vicinity of the well-known Lamn Temple and
shota into the air, disarmed them, afterwards firing
This won the signal for the disaffected regiment, which was billeted in the Temple, to
act. The men manned the walls of the
at the forthcoming General Elec- Temple and poured a fusillade of tion. The Liberal lender accused shots into the streets around. the Conservatives of ineptitude in The authorities acted with com- dealing with present-day pro-mendable promptitude, quickly blems, and suggested that the bringing up a number of loyal recent bye-election results retroups, who isolated the Temple, the aerodrome.
vealed that the Country wanted silenced the mutiacers fire and Flying Officer Sealy Allin, how-none of the Socialist Party..
began disarming them. Mr. Lloyd George further claim- ed that the Liberals were
Business and traffic was brought the to a standsti, but the situation only united party in the State.ts now quiet. He denounced the ineptitude of The number of casualties in 118 a public not known as Shansi troops are the Government slanger, and went on to say that still maintaining a cordon around the recent bye-elections showed the the area.-Renter. Socialist vote to have declined,
The Labour Party has won all the contested seats.]
The first race produced a sensever, crushed with his machine, ting when Noukhall, ridden by Mr. and his body was extricated from Newbiggin, romped home first, his backers on the parl-mutuel receive the wreckage, badly crashel,
The aeroplanes were carrying ing the handsome dividend of $435.10 for a win and $96.50 for at formation exercises over the aerodrome when the collision oc- plnec.
The weather was overcast and
curred, and it is likely that an
enquiry will be held.
rather colder than for the past two
In spite of his alarming experi- days, but the course was in quife
Freeman good condition and the going waste Flight-Sergeant by no means heavy. All of the ook the air again in another aero- Shanghai jockeys remained for the plane within an hour of the disas- "Of Day," but local riders hoped Cer-British Wireless.
-to come more into the picture
than on, the first three days.
Results.
*HAY 1-THE
AND CORN" STAKES-Wirmer $400, Second $150. Third $100. For Subscription Griffins of any season that have started at least twice at this Meeting and have not won. Weight for inches as per scale. (Jockey allowance). Entrance $5. Five Furlongs,
Mr. John Peel's Noukhail
(Mr. Newbiggin) ́ ́1 Mrs. K. E. Belth's Cream
Cracker ....... (Mr. Heard), 2 Mr. Gabbay's Sunshine
DUTCH JOURNAL'S ALLEGATIONS.
BRITAIN AND FRANCE GIVE ASSURANCES.
the
Country Shrinking.
HANKOW'S DARK OUTLOOK.
W
RUMOURS OF ATTACK ON
THE CITY.
PICKETS FIRED UPON
Naval wireless messages re- ceived to-day state that rumoure are prevalent in Hankow to the effect that an attack on the city is impending.
GROWING:
ADDITIONAL LOCAL DONATIONS.
HOW THE FUND IS BEING "ADMINISTERED.
"EVERY $5 MEANS £1."
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
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Two Austin cars were stolen "After tho Racos-Boxing," Inst week-end," More baby snatch. renda an advertisement. Quite ingl
appropriate when one remembers the "parry-mutual” aspect of this
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It is not correct that returned sharebrokers will hold a Thanks- giving Service for the Statute of Limitatious..
ឆ ២ Battleship grey is the new particular sport! colour for men's suita. Should be popular amongst Hongkong's big guns:
☐ ☐ Lots of Kowloon girls are going from fad to worse.
From "Old Boro's Almanack:"-" Next year a man will make lots The daily rosponse to the ap
Latest Afghan news still leaves of money backing ponies, but it peals made by the Telegraph on beus in doubt as to who is the heir won't be you. half of the workless British miners to the thrown, and their families still continues.
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The Bateman cartoon has yet So far, thanks to the generosity of Sitting Bull sat up and took to be drawn depicting the Scots- individuals and various organisa notice in the Champions.
man at the Racecourse demanding tions in Hongkong and the out-
his money back. ports, we have been able to send Home over £300, and there in every indication that this sum will be substantially augmented by further contributions.
The suggestion' that naval and messes and similar military organisations might assist the Fund is bearing fruit, for to-day we have to acknowledge welcome subscriptions from one of the messes and from the Sick Borth staff at the Naval Hospital. These a are much appreciated."
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It's possible, of course, that he was distracted, by the Eve.
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In accorgiance, with our usual custom of publishing weekly at A man who won nothing at the least one alarming piece of news, Races wants to know by what we learn that our local hostciries process of reasoning the sweep do not, throw away stale brand, take figures are described as the proof of the eating being in
the pudding, "lucky numbers.".
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One way for bachelor to overcome
the
la to
on
or-
Fund have the knowledge that the danger
All who assist the Lord Mayor's | mother-in - 1 a w money is being put to the best marry possible advantage for the relief phan, of the sufferers, besides which the Government is making grants on a £ for £ basis,
Sums already received by the Telegraph are as follows:
Already acknowledged $3,298
and 10/-
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"A dontist must be judged
by his work,"
Bays a medical
journal. Extrac-
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tions speak lou- der than words.
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Total....10/- and
.89,905
Mess Sick Borth Staff, R. N.
Hospital
How Money Is Used.
It was stated at a recent meet-
A woman's most unplea- sant reflection
Is often that caused by shiny nose.
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"You look pry mizerable.” "Yes, three weeks ago drank too much champagne.".
"You must have got over the effects by now."
"Yes, but now I have to pay for it,"
on
We
are
'wear
A men's specialist says black shoes áre now boing
widely worn.
The bigger the feet, the wider. 門口 Either
tha
scasons must be changing ΟΥ
olso the fighting is starting ear Her than usual in Chirin.
□□ Adam
may
have been the first man, but
In the Derby
ho WHO
only
spcond pony.
He added that these recent alections showed that the electors were shrinking from entrusting power to a Party pledged to over- throw Britain's commercial and industrial system.
The
competent only Party to restore Lite country's. trade and commerce was the Li- horal, he declared. The Liberals were historically the Party of com mercial prosperity, and he assured the candidates and the electors AN OFFICIAL'S DENIAL. that the Liberals were ready with
ing of local representatives of the organisation administering dis- "Tasmanians ага mad
assured Christian schemes for work which can im-
It is not clear, however, whether tresa funds in Northumberland, cricket," says an Australian paper. Scientists enjoy "Bulls and Berlin, Mar. 1. mediately be operated to reduce
Innera". Sometimes, of course, The latent startling "disclosurea" the number of unemployed to nor- this is to be an endeavour by Nan. Durham, and South Wales held at Tasmaniacs?
that co-ordination
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they are Eddyfying. concerning
"Mona,".-Don't lleged secret mal propertions within a year with-king to bring Wuhan into line with Westminster.
peater your (Mr. Pote Hunt Franco-Belgian military alliance, out adding a penny to national or
២ ជ the Central Government (follow- and co-operation in relief measures
proceeding rapidly and husband to go to church. He "The monagerie forms an im- Eighteen starters. A length namely, the publication by the local taxation.
Ing the recent attack and capture were
might retort that he's already been portant factor in the life of the and a half; a length.
Utrecht Dagblad of minutes, al-
of Changsha by Wuhan), or smoothly..
Circus in our midet," says a con- Many of the overlapping_diff-there once too often. leged to be the record of a meeting
whether it is merely a change of local commanders.
culties had been removed, and the
temporary. Now we know the of millary experts in Brussels in
Mr. Lloyd George went on to ex-
The anti-Japanese boycott situa-provision of food, clothes, and Household Hint: The best way explanation of the enge-work at September 1927, has aroused fur-plain that the Liberals were not tion appears to be getting more boots, and benefits for nursing to divide ten potatoes equally the Ferry. ther excitement over the affair.
between three people is to mash In consequence of the Dagblad's proposing relief-works, that is to serious, and the Japaness police mothers, was proceeding,
"Accidents will happen in the latest allegations,
In Northumberland and Durham them. the British say, works simply for the purpose were again forced to make use of
best regulated race meetings,” Foreign Office and the French of providing jobs for the unem-rifle-fire on Thursday, owing to
Some women would rather be says our Sunday contemporary. French Foreign Office have inform-ployed. They had in mind very the aggressiveness of the Chinese
two-faced than double-chinned. In deference to Peterkin's owner ed the. German Ambassadors in necessary works for the proper pickels.
The wine stocks seized from the
Fund Figures.
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we propose to let this pass with- Landon and Parle respectively that equipment of the natio
Hankow Race Club about three
A news item the other day men- out comment. neither of their Governments has In the first place, th
In the House of Commons last e was a months ago have not yet been re-
had
៨ ០ done anything to impair the immediate necessity for the rear turned, in spite of orders from ment of the Board of Education) married a girl after she dropped a
month, Lord Eustace Percy (Pre- tioned that a professor Locarno Pact,
ganisation of the chaotic transport Nanking that they should be. The muniration to the German Am-roads that had been started but
The Quai D'Orsay. In its co-system, and the completion of conditions of return put forward circulated the following Parlia-heavy reference book on his toe, permit by the U.S. Commission. .. (Mr. Hill) 2bassador in Paris, takes the op-not finished owing to the deleation the Tax Bureau are such as to mentary reply, in answer to a ques We can imly suppose they now It is rumoured that he intends to
Time:1 min. 16.4/5 sees, Pari-Mutuel.--Winner. $435.10; Ist, $98.50; 2nd, $18.30, 3rd $18.20.
En
2-THE "LOITERERS" STAKES -Winner $400, Second $150. Third $100. For Grillins of this Meeting that have started at least twice and have not won. Weight for inches as per scale. (Jockey allowance).- trance $5. Mira Purlongs, Mesars, Chan, M. & A. E. Ra- feck's Triumphant Stag ....
(Mr. Quinqcy) } Mr. L. Dunbar's Frenchman's
Bay
starters.
Mr. Ho Kom-toug's Imperial
Hall.....(Mr. Encarnacno) 3 Seven
A length; three-quarters of a length.
Time: min. 16.2/0 secs.
$16.60; Pari-Matue-Winner. lat, $5.10; 2nd, $6.30; 3rd, $5.10.
Necessary Works.
portunity of re-emphasising that
the publications are a forgery,
of funds.
Rural Revival.
ac-
make them impossible of reptance..
Hankow, Mar. 1. Japanese marines landed on Wednesday and put up barbed wiring around the Japan- ese. Concession.
GERMANY.
new
It is learned from Brussels Unt Count de Broqueville, who is men- tioned in the alleged "minutes" s Secondly, the revival of the follows: "Seen and approved by countryside was vital to the na- the Ministry of National Delence, tion. There must be better ur- CJI, de Broqueville," gave an in-rangements for the marketing of terview to Press representatives country produce, and furthermore, 3-THE "ALL OUT STAKES-to-day, and he said that "the Min- there are immense areas of water- SOUTH AFRICA AND Winner $100. Second $150. Third $100. For all China Ponies that have tes are only another forgery." He logged land out of cultivation started at least twice at this Meeting denied that there has ever been any which must be drained.
Weight for such conference of the French und and have not won.
(Jockey allow Belgian General Staffs-Reuter. inches as per senic. ance) Entrance 86. Fire Furlongs, Mr. 1. Dunbar's Baker's Bay
(Mr. Hill) 1 Mr. K. H. Kay's Tarmucadam
(Mr. Pote Hunt) 2 Mr.. Ilau Un's Monterey Bay
(Mr. Roza) 3] Ten atarters. A neck; Jongth and a half.
NEW YORK STOCK BOOM.
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WILD "BULL" RAMPAGE REPORTED,
New York, Mar. 1. Bedlam reigned on the stock market to-day, the public staging the wildest "bull" rampage of the year.
Time:1 min. 14.4/5 secs. Pari-Mutuci-Winder, $26.60; 1st, $8.70; 2nd, $7.50; 3rd, $7.90. -THE TYTAM HANDICAP "A" CLASS. Winner $000, Second 8250, Third $150, For Subscription
Six million shares changed Griffins of this meeting that have started at least twice. Entrance 818. hands amid scenes of tumultuoue One Milo.
Messrs. Tosier and Abraham's
The Ape ...(Mr. Harriman) ~ 1 Mr. Wayfoong's The Jamaica
confusion. Router's Service.
American
(Mr. Clark) 2] ATLANTIC PHONE
Messrs. Lau and Lee's Duke of
Milan...... (Mr. Heard) 3 Thirteen sturlers. A neck; a length.
Time:--2 min. 38.2 5 secs. Pari-Mutuel.-Winner, $61.30;
1st, $14.30; 2nd, $8.80; 3rd, $22.50.
POPULAR.
NEW CABLE TO BE LAID DOWN.
It was essential, he argued, that
the rural industries should be re-
stored. In order that women and TRADE AGREEMENT PASSES children should be en blod to sup-
plement the family income.
were
THE ASSEMBLY.
157,500 pairs of boots had already been distributed.
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Ford has been refused a radio
accept the decision as final.
The
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beer-
com-
sing "Tome Sweet Tome." tion put by Mr. Lansbury;
Up to February 1 the total
close season for A writer refers to "generous aniount subscribed by the public to
Must have been throwing at photographa the Lord Mayor's Fund was, ap- vegetables."
of good-hearted cab mences to-day. proximately, £625,000; the amount thinking paid into the Fund from the Ex bages.
Great words of little wives:- chequer was £150,000, and the amount paid out of the Fund People who refused to bet on "My husband may stay out late £216,277, divided as follows: the ponies this week showed horse but he always comes home in good
£94,250 sense.
78,100
South Wales...
Durham and Northumber-
land
West Riding
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Another husband has been skin. ned. Let's hope no more fur coats are required this winter.
spirits."
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1 City Hall has at last won
7,500 prize.
Lancashire and Cheshire
7,600
Notts and Derbyshire
5,000
Mary has a powder-puff,
Somerset and Gloucester-
hire (including Forest of Dean) Cumberland
4,000
2,000
Various approved organisa-
tions
And when her nose is blue
If Government really wishes to She "goes on" in an awful huff entertain with its broadcasting, And the dab stuff goes on, too. what about pincing a microphone
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near one of those Ferry turn- The man who hid $800; in a stiles? motor tyre had a good excuse for a blow-out.
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The third proposal that the Liberal Party had in mind was con-
17,927 cerned with re-afforestation, the MUCH CONTROVERSY.
Divisional Committees have been
MacWhirter, be says that a Big minos, and the telephones,
set up to control the operations of
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man's plecs of mind la often reforms were demanded "In these
Capetown, Mar. 1. '
Wo notice that "Salt Horms destroyed by a woman's,; and he spheres
Was certain The much-criticised Trade Trea. the Fund in all the distressed min-
DO that if the Libera! Party ty between South Africa and Gering areas except the South Midland Roads." We can only presume
group, the organisation of which that is why the western end of Tho trouble about an in- allowed to go ahead many, which places Germany on
near the Praya is in such a pickle, feriority complex is that most with their schemes in this practically the same footing as the will be completed, in the
future.
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often the wrong people have it. connexion they would provide British Empire, came before the
Forty-six Local Committees are Among "Miscellaneous Goods"
口口 work for two years for at least Assembly of the Union of South operating in distressed districts in sold by auction yesterday, we It was the undertakers' annual Africa to-day, and a Bill ratify the South Wales area and 55. in noticed-Keg Pork, Tea, Barley, dinner. The guest of honour was ing the agreement was passed by 65, Durham and Northumberland. In Disinfecting Fluid, Bone Meal, speaking and in generous mood. coalfields which have more recently Oil, Gunny Bags, Chinese Wine, He said: "Gentlemen, the first Henceforth, the same tariff pre-been brought within the area of Flour, Sugar and Hydraulic Moni- person in the company to die I penditure, Mr. Lloyd George sald ferences will be extended to Gor- application of the Fund the formators." This, we believe, when shall bury free." There was
to British, altion of Local Committees is pro-prepared In equal parts, ar loud report. On investigation it it was essential that unprofitable man imports no outgoings must be cut down. He though the agreement does not coeding.
† 60,000 men and women.
Attack Singapore Base. Referring to Government ex-
votes to 51.
ci ed the question of naval arms apply to existing preferences ments as an instance, saying the affecting British Imports, It is the ery of the country was "Post specifically stated in the Treaty Tone Singapore until you have that the German importers cannot attended to England." (Cheers), claim the rates granted under the He concluded by saying that the "pecial preferences for British
goods. Conservativo Government had The Measure has been the causo borrowed £40,000,000 to keep men of a heated controversy both in New York, Mar. 1.
enforced Idleness. Surely Because the trans-Atlantic wire- money could be borrowed for the England and South Africa.
Many protests have reached less telephone facilities are so schemes he had propounded to re- South Africa from England, and Telo- move the disgrace and the humilis- some of the Union Government's Zenjebil..... (Mr. Heard) 1 overloaded, the American
phone and Telegraph Company has tion Mra. Pearce'a Anabasis....
unemployment. The Labour supporters withdrew their (Mr. Haimovitch) 2 decided to spend a vast sum in Liberal Party, he added, was the allegiance on the voting, which Messrs. Hynes and Mackle's laying a special telephone cable only party capable of executing showed only a very narrow margin
the Atlantic-Reuter's such a Pumpkin ...(Mr. Clark) 3 across
business programmnem for, the Government-Router. (Continued on.Page 10.).
6-THE TYTAM HANDICAP "B" CLASS.
Messrs. Harry and Henry's
American Service.
ת!
Reuter.
of
recipe for was found that an Aberdonfan had
shot himself.
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Two Kowloon gentlemen who MacFuddle says that the Tanot reside--within-100-yards-of--the Chunnel controversy has now be Ferry have a nice new motor car gun in earnest, What he meant. with which they proceed thereto of course, was the Chunnel Tan-. and-from. It is rumoured that nell
Diplomát Pudding.
I enclose herewith the sum
of $..
as a donation to
the British Minera' Distresa
Fund.
the proximates
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they walk three woary miles to their garage. Peak, can you beat
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A headline we may yet live to
road: "Police Tragedy; Lanů-
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A Kowloon child, wont to school lady Pushed In: After Fine the other day and proudly an
nounced to teacher that his father
Struggle."
had been "immaculated." Of A Kowloon owner driver is at course, what he meant to say was present suffering as a result of "Intoxicated."
congestion of the traffic,