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Good Racing Thrills Big Valley Crowd
Marshall and Frost Setting Pace
SOME
CLOSE FINISHES
DURING AFTERNOON
2
Bright, warm weather marked the third day of the annual Race Meeting at Happy Valley, with every promise of another day's good sport. There was thrilling finish to the opening event, the Kalgan Plate, which Mariposa, ridden by Mr. N. Deitz, won by a short head from Prospero, with Tze Tin third a similar distance away.
In a field of eight, Mr. F. Marshall brought home Holiday Eve in the Coral Plate three lengths ahead of Vixen Tor, backers securing a return of $27.90 for a win.
Mr. Marshall followed up his surgest in the previous race by winning the Exchange Plate with King's Warden, coming in two Tengilis ahead of Hear Claw, ridden by Mr. Frost, with Toneymoon Eve"(Mr. Needa) in third place three lengths away.
f
GOVERNOR
ARRIVES
His Excellency the Governor ar- rived at 1.20 p.m.
The weather at the track was glorious and there was an even big-
ger crowd than yesterday.
TO-DAY'S CASH SWEEPS
Below are winning numbers in the
two lengths ahead of Tempest (Mr. Cash Sweeps at to-day's Races:
Gordito, cidden by Mr. V. C. Sung,
accounted for the Subscription
Griffins Challenge Cup, coming in
--T-L.-Wong), with Pagan-Love-Mr.
F. Marshall) a neck behind in third place.
Race No. 1
No. 780
$767.30
466
210.20
.. 300
100.60
Only three ponies went to the post for the American Club Cup, in which Rosemary, ridden by Mr. Leighton,
had
to concede victory
10
Unplaced ponies (550 each): Nos.
Red 083, 573, 327, 1865, 1991, 1023, 906, Feather (Mr. Frost up) by three 201, 1060, 1670. lengths, King's 11ghway (Mr. Marshall) was many lengths behind the second pony.
1-11.30a.m.-The Kalgan Plate. Winner $600. Second $250. Third $180. For China Ponies, Subscrip- tion Griffins of this Club of this Meeting. One Mile,
Mr. Sunshine's Mariposa
Race No. 2
No. 1427
418
14
1301
$1,022.00
202.00. 140.00
Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos. 1980, 115, 1471, 031, 172.
(152 N. Deitz)
Race No. 3
1
No. 1501
$1,225.70
2
1440 101
350.20
175.10
lbs.) AN Mr. Brish's Prospero (152 lbs.) (Mr. V. V. Needa) Mr. General's Tze Tin (151 lbs.)
(Mr. D. S. Li) 3
Thirteen starters. Won by short head; short, head, Time-2 min. 07.3/5 secs.
..
Pari-mutuel:-Winner $9.50. Places
Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos.
620.
Race No. 4
No.
G81 1471
548
$1,092.20 300,20 154.00
GAS MASKS FOR ALL FRANCE
The Government of M. Leon Blum has decreed that the men, women and chlidren of France, wad in come instances the animals, shall each have a gas mask for use in an emergency. Factories are turning out there hideous accoutrements in thousands for civilians as well as soldiers and sailors.
Deputy Police
Chief Robbed
TROOPS FOR WAR
At Race Track FOR
Deputy Inspector General of Police C.. G. Perdue carelessly put his hand in his pocket to pay for the winning cash sweep ticket on the next race.
Deputy Inspector General of Police CG. Perdne withdrew his hand-empty?
D.I.G.V. Perdue lad been robbed by a pickpocket!
Pickpockets are displaying extraordinary activity at the annusl races this year. and several vietins have reported lossca, musi of them. fortunate- ly small.
Mr. C. G. Perdue was relieved of $8 in one-dollar bunk-nutes, 'anal "is"still wondering' when and
how.
BRITISH SHIP IN DISTRESS
HITS ROCK WHILE AT FULL SPEED
· BOUND FOR
HONGKONG
San, Francisco, Feb. 22.
LOYAL TROOPS
SMASHING WAY INTO OVIEDO
Basques Allegedly Win Brilliant Victory
REBELS IN SOUTH AIM TO TAKE ALMERIA NEXT
Bilbao, Feb. 22.
A. Government communique claims to-day that the Basque Leftists have inflicted a serious reverse upon the insurgents on the Asturias front. It asserts the Basques, in a brilliant action, have penetrated Oviedo, occupying a number of streets of the city, and that they have also cut the road between Oviedo and Grado and penetrated; and fortified their new positionis, at Pamdo. During these actions they captured a number of lesser towns and heights, numerous prisoners and large quantities of
COMING
GAMES ammunition-Reuter.
MEDWAY BRINGING 1,000 MEN HERE ON MARCH 8
A thousand Singapore troops the entire 1st Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers-are arriving in Hongkong on March 8 to participate in the grand combined manoeuvres.
For the first time in history, H.M.S. Medway, which js bringing the troops to. Hongkong, will go alongside the Kowloon wharves to disembark them..
The men will go into temporary encampment on the mainland, and will be used in the defence of the peninsula. They will remain here until about mid-April. In addition to the soldiers, aircraft from the Royal Air Force station at Seletar will also take part in the manoeuvres. They will include at least one flying-boat
squadron.
Twenty-five ships of the China Station, most of which have already lett Singapore after operations there, will participate.
STOP PRESS
The Telegraph understands that the fotal number of troops and naval
nen participating
in the local manoeuvres will be about 25,000, as compared with 20,000 in the Singa- pore war games carller this month.
The anti-aircraft defences of Hong- The British steamer Angelina,kong will be especially tested and owned by the Anglo-Saxon the newly formed Naval Volunteers Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos. Petroleum Company, and be will undertake patrols of the entire play, the M.C.C. were 132 for 3. $150. 1207, 1683, 435, 774, 2504, 1355, 1739.lieved to be carrying passengers,
coastline. For Australian Ponies of any Sea-670. Бол. Bix Furlongs.
struck a rock at full speed and is calling for assistance near the coast of Formosa. ·
$5.00; $9.80; $8.70.
2--The Coral Plate Winner $800. Second
$250. Third
Mr. Eve's Holiday Eve (150 lbs.)
(Mr. F. Marshall) -1 Mrs. E. H. M. Tinson's Vixen Tor (161 lbs.) (Mr. L. R. Ralph) .Dr. S. N. Chau's Derby Day (157
(Mr. L. G. Frost) 3
Race No. 5
No. 70
2419
11
2
1417
・3bs.) ......!
Eight starters. Won by three lengths; half length.: Time: min. 18.2/5 secs. Pari-mutuci: Winner $27.90.
Places $9.80; $11.40; $7.00.
3-The
Exchange. Plate-Pre-
$1,243,20 355,20 177,00 Unplaced ponies ($50 each: Nos. 1026, 1820, 1300, 632.
Race No. 6
No, 340
•2073 101
$1,580.00
451,00
225,80 Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos.
sented by the Bankers and Exchange 3276, 7, 2000, 3277, 805.
Brokers of Hongkong. Value $1,000
$150. For China Poriles.
:a. Quarter Miles.
J
to Winner. Second
$200. Third
Race No. 7
One and
No.
400
E1
1319 3434
$1,002,00 532.00 200.00
Race No. 8
Mr. Dynasty's King Warden (103
lbs.)
(Mr. F. Marshall)
1
Mrs. Dunbar's
Bear Claw (103
Iba.) ................. (Mr. L. G. Frost) 2 No. 016
Mr. Eve's Honeymoon Eve (103
$1,000.20 545.20 272.00 Unplaced pinics ($50 each): Nos. Won by two lengths; three lengths. 1440, 2038, 3450, 2120.
1823
lbs.) (Mr. V. V. Needa) 3 Four starters,
" 3007
Time: 2 min. 27.3/5 secs.
Parl-mutuel: - Winner.
$10,80.
*Places $5.10; $5.10.
Race No. 5 No. 3094,
4-The Albury Stakes-Winner
$400. Second $250, Third
$150.
2205 775
$1,770.60 507.60 253.80 Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos.
For Australian Ponies, Griffins o 1956, 2008, 232, 3292, 000, 1734, 437. this Meeting. Five Furlongs. “Mr. F. C, Holl's Katinka (150 lbs.) ́ ́· (Mr. L. G. Frost 1
Mrs. Eu Tong-sen's Dick Turpin
(155 lbs.). (Mr. E. C. Leighton) 2 Mr. A. W. Hughes Boronia Bell
(152 lbs.)(Mr. L. P. Ralph). .3. 1r startera.
Won by four lengths; two length. Timet1 rain. 03.1/5 seca. Part-mutuel:- Winner
ST. $8.40. Places $5:50; $0.30; $7.00,
(Continued on Page 4.),
Raco. No. 10
No. 2100 1805
604
$1,041,00 654.00 -277.40
Race No. 11
No. 3124
020
1007
Unplaced, ponies ($50 2064, 1423, 1801, 1100.
$2,014.60 675.00 207,00 each): Nos.
This information was picked up by Manila-Reuter.
HEARS DISTRESS CALLS
Manila, Feb. 23.
The Globe Wireless to-day heard the motorship Angelina calling the
Melbourne, Feb. 23-At close of?
Match drawn.----Router,
OVIEDO ISOLATED
Madrid, Feb. 22. The Government claims to have completely isolated
Oviedo, which is now surrounded, and which Government troops have been besieging for six months. A few weeks ago an insurgent relief column reached the city, smashed through the lines of siege and defeated the Loyalists in a severe battle on the hills overlooking the city.
Crew Objects To Carrying Spain Carga
Boston, Feb. 22. The British freighter, Linaria, has docked here with a cargo of coal. Part of the crew are pre- pared to protest to the Brush Consulate ogalust the alleged scheduled shipment from Virginiz of nitratex for Spain. United Press.
NO MORE YIELDING BY CHINA
GOVERNMENT STAND, WELCOMED
Shanghai, Feb., 23. The result of the plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang Party is generally welcomed by the Chinese press,
In spite of the decision to revise foreign policy, the Ta Kung Pao re-
The siege has now been resumed, and upparently with more success..
Insurgents declare that an attack of Leftist militla near Seville has been repulsed, with heavy losses inflicted on the loyalista.
Nationalists-under-the-Royalist -- flag. claim to have won successes on
front. Jarama
the Jar
Insurgent planes to-day flew over Almeria asking the populace to sur render. It is believed that General Del Bono, the southern commander, whose troops recently captured Malaga, is aiming at Almeria now. Reuter Bulletin Service,
General Offensive
corn-
The
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Madrid, Feb. 22. The Loyalists, have loosed a general offensive on the southern front and It is claimed that their storm troops have captured La Maranosa and that others are advancing south-east from Madrid on the Arganda sector. The attack is under the personal direction of General Mijn, who is the mander-in-chief at Madrid. operations are proceeding along 37% mile front.
In spite of a terrific barrage from machine-guns,
understood Loyalists penetrated the rebel lines at several points. They either captured the machine-gun nests or forced the Nationalists to retreat. Government observers at noon reported tho attackers had progressed over ₤1 kilometre In some sections and was entirely sailafactory..
a
it
HONGKONG GARRISON Britain's garrison establishment at Hongkong includes three infantry buttalions and various Corps units,
Tanks In Action Including Royal Artillery, Royal En gineers and Royal Corps of Signals.
Shanghal, Feb, 23,
Late In the morning the Nationalista The Royal Artlilery includes two Four soldiers of the Loyal Regi-gards the Government's manifesto as brought their tanks into the action. anti-aircraft batteries.
ment were injured when forty evidence of China's determination to However, specially trained Loyalist No Royal Air Force, squadrons ratings from the Italian warship maintain her independence and In- anti-tank units moved up to the front have yet been established at Hong-Lepanto, armed with black jacks and tegrity, to resist invasion, and oven and bombed the mechanised units kong, although two new aerodromes, lead piping, came to blows with a to recover lost territory."There will from advanced positions.
one
letters PCQV and Bashing an SOS, at
on the island itself and one in similar number of British soldiers in 6.44.8.m.
be no more yielding of power or Threa squadrons of planes sighted the New Territories, are nearing a dance hall as the result of a quarrel prestige," declares this journal, which near Madrid at noon on their way The ship sent out the following completion.
over partners. A free fight in which says the experiences of the past few to the Jarama front led observers to message:
There is a Royal Air Force station the soldiers retaliated with bottles years encourage the bellef that the predict a major air battle. "Struck rock under water at full
It is reported that intensive fight-- at Kal Tak, the personnel of which and chairs raged in the hall and the Government can successfully pursue speed. We trying pull out vainly
military police is stated policy.
ing is proceeding in the Robledo- has charge of the Fleet Air Arm of street until the point near Pukl Laku North Formosa. the China Fleet when it is in port, separated the combatants. Several
Cobreros sector, 25 miles east of Agrounded. Need asalstance." There are also about six machines of the Italians were also Injured.---
Madrid. It is claimed that the militismen have isolated large bodies of Rightists, troops and artillery, from their base at Avila.
United Press.
BOUND FOR HONGKONG
at Kal Tak which.
are used for Reuter. various
anti- purposes, including aircraft exercises.
The Te Kung Pao points out that there is less internal dissension in me. China to-day than at any other time. The people are imbued with a spirit The local agents for the Angelina,
of national unity never before known, The cruiser Cumberland, flagship the Aslatic Petroleum Company, of His Excellency the Commander-
as this will not only help the nation to resist foreign encroachments but stated to-day that the vessel was | In-Chief of the China Ficot, will ultimately due to come here, though it leave Singapore on March 10 for
will also work towards domestic Gymkhana Stakes:-1, Boolat Bay; security by tending to destroy was not known whether or not she | Hongkong. Most of the other units had reached Tarnaul, on the northern of the feet will have returned to the 2. Wild Life; 3; Rose-Queen. tip of Formosa, from Foochow, when Colony by then. the accident happened.
She was due to leave Tamsul soon for Hongkong and may have been on her way here.
She definitely carries no passengera.
SHIPS IN COLLISION
San Francisco, Feb. 22.
Д
The other naval, croft comprise
destroyers, the eight
submarine depot-ship Medway, 11 submarines, and two sloops..
Race No. 12
No. 1347
*
2907 3030
$3,850.00 1,100.00 550.00
The other vessel which took part
Unplaced ponies ($100 each): Nos. in the Singapore
the manoeuvres,
on Its 787, -3180, cruleer Dorsetshiro, is now way to England, and will be follow-
The Globe Wireless here has hearded shortly by the Hermes, the President Hoover reporting collision between the Yoshida Maru No. 1 and the Nanshin Maru No. 23 in Intitute 28.30 North, longitude 124.89 East, near Keelung.
"The Nanshin Maru is wrecked but floating and three of her crew are missing," the Hoover reports United PreES,
MAGAZINE BANNED
· Berlin, Feb. 23,-- The Secret Police have banned the American humour magazine, Fun, but without Indicating their reasons.
United Press..
feudalism.
"It is pleasant to note," says this Journal, that even commoners. are showing signs of a willingness to participate in the family reunion," declaring that in the joint march to- wards
River.-
General Pozas told correspondents that the Loyalists had not attempted to capture Cebreros "mainly because it is unnecessary to waste mon-power." The Loyalists, he added, were retain. their positions along the Tagus From the Asturlas front comes the Government claim: "We' will take Oviedo to-morrow." Meanwhile, there is heavy ghting on a long front, a national front there should { —United Press, be leaders neither of the Left nor Right. Students should continue to Improve their resistance and organi-
Madrid, Feb. 23. sation.
Another newspaper expresses dis only a few hours. They were driven The Loyalists held La Maranosator appointment at the fallure
bnek by a rebel counter-attack. Kuomintang
"decide anything United Press. to essential or positive," but admitä that the manifesto is the best so far published by the Party. This journal Interprets, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek'i statement as evidence that the Gove ornment intends to expand its policy
of the
Loyalists Dislodged
of concentrating. the talent of the nation under Nanking's leadership, even though the idea of a Popular Front is rejected.-Reuter.