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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 0, 1932.

MANILA RACING SENSATION

FIVE PONIES FAIL TO

START

INFURIATED CROWD BOYCOTT

CLUB TICKETS.

FOUR RIDERS SUSPENDED

ATTACK ON A MATRON.

Jail and Birch for Assailant.

J.

THE CHINA MAIL.

NOT ASSIZES CASE.

Sentence of ten months hard Jabour and 18 strokes of the birch was passed by Mr. E. R.. Williams of the Central Magistracy yesterday | afternoon on Tseng Shing, who was charged with assaulting Misa E. St. Quentin, Matron of the Military Hospital, Bowen Road; with rob- bing her of her hand bag; and, alternatively, with receiving the stolen hand bag.

PRETTY BRIDE-TO-BE A WEEK'S DISEASES.

VANISHES.

Soon After Arranging About the Banns.

WOUNDED WRIST.

Diphtheria Cases Again Prominent.

ONE IMPORTED.

The official return of diseases and deaths during the week end-

Cases DeathA 3 1

72

1

1

98

EXPLORERS START FOR TROPICS.

Puss Moth Machine.

FLYING LABORATORY.

Berlin, December 29. Flying Puss Moth machine equipped with a 60 h.p. engine, Dr. Karl Simmer, an Austrian scientist, and the German pilot Fritz Spindler left the Tempelhof Aerodrome this

GASSED IN BOWELS OF EARTH

4 Overseers Fall Victim to Carbon Monoxide.

FERIE DISASTER.

London, December: 28.

men who lost their The four- Ives to-day at the Frickley colliery, In South Yorkshire, fell dead one after the other in trying to save s comrade who was struck down by poison gaa

One case of diphtheria and one morning on the first seronautic ex of typhoid fever were Imported, pedition into tropical Africa. For It was one of the cariest of all

Summary to December 31.

this purpose the machine had been mine disasters: there was no fire,

Soon after going with her sweated January 2 is as follows: heart to a clergyman to arrange for

Typhoid fever the publication of their banna of marriage, #

pretty 21-year-old Diphtheria.....

Smallpox Reading girl has disappeared.

Carabro-spinal fever She is Agnes Mary, Pottinger, of Tuberculosis Jubilee Square. She worked at the Reading biscuit factory, and it is stated that she had been in a Manila, December 28.

nervous state recently. Her fance, Because five out of nine horses entered in the first race in the

Mr. Archibald Heath, of Silver Street, Reading, and she had chosen morning yesterday at the San Lazaro Hippodrome of the Manila - Jockey Club falled to run due to slight error in starting, more than

their home and furnished it.

The night before she disappeared 4,000 race fans caused a near-riot, which required calling out police

they parted on the best of terms.

Mother's Statement. reserves with riot guns. The trouble started when D. F. W. Prising, town. She was attacked by a

Mrs. Pottinger said, when inter- Chinese, who, coming from behind, official judge of the races, refused to annul the race as the pushed her into a nullah, and then viewed

The made off with her hand bag.

"In the morning I saw Agnes, public demanded because of the failure of the five horses to run.

accused was accosted by an Indian who was my eldest girl,* dressed horses that could not participate in constable near the junction of Mac-ready for work. Her wrist waN youred her she could not go to the race, protested against the de- donnell and Kennedy Roads and wounded. cision on the ground that the race challenged because the constable should have been annulled. They noticed something like

The incident was understood to have caused a loss of from P16,000 to P20,000 to the club, due to the suspension of all the morning races after the fourth because the fans would not stake any bets until the first race was either annulled or their money returned.

WAD

The robbery, it will be remem bered, occurred in Bowen Road on December 28 as Miss St. Quentin was returning to the hospital from

following figures)—

The approximate returns from turned into a flying laboratory, be no explosion and the men died one of scientific apparatus, from Instru- As the colliery was due to re- January 1 to December $1 give the ing loaded to capacity with all kinds by one almost in silence.

·Cases Deaths: ments for measuring the intensity open to-morrow seven overseers sun rays and went down, the mine to make a and velocity of the specially designed microscopes for holiday inspection. They ran into the study of special infusoria found an accumulation of carbon monoxide, In certain African pools. to special gas, and one man dropped down. for native Two others went to his ald and recording apparatus

Typhoid fever ....... 218. Smallpox ... Scarlet fever Diphtheria

66

15

9

8

244

55

22

10.

19

18

Cerebro-spinal fever

When the were overcome, while another two songs and dances. Puerperal fever

imachine was weighed shortly before, men who tried to rescue their com Tuberculosis

2,847

Its start, It was found to be too rades went into the gas and met Twenty-one of the typhold cases heavy and the explorers had to leave the same fate-Reuter ware non-Chinese, as were three behind several tins of film, and even a purse work, and I told one of my younger scarlet fever cases, one small-pox then the pilot only just managed to "PrimPARENA

case, two cerebro-spinal fever take the heavy plane off the ground.

cases, and 102 číphtheria caSEL.

NOT LEFT IN THE COLD.

Alfonso Still Loved By Villagers.

Madrid, December 6.

The expedition, will take ap- · proximately three months. Its route includes unexplored spots In the Sudan, Arabia, the Belgian Congo, Tanganyika and Abyssinia whose emperar has sent a special invita tion to the two explorers who have both seen war sérvice as pilota and "King" Alfonso still rules In before their departure expressed

of a little village called Huces, in safe and sound from what is on Andalusia.

sidered an extremely dangerous ven The village council and the land-ture. lords are all etaunch monarchists In order to placate hostila natives, and even now will not recognise the the explorers have taken along large revolution and the Republican gov-quantities. of cheap watches, beads ernment. Eighty per cent. of the and other trinkets,--Trans-Ocean populations is illiterate.

Kuo Min.

REBELLION NEAR TO END...

Rebel Leader Surrenders.

ALL QUIET

Rangoon, December 29,

said that four of the nine not hav- under hla coat. The accused ran, daughters to go to the hospital with the ing been able to run through no but after a chase was intercepted her. Apparently, when near

by Private W. Hewitt, of the South hospital, Agnes told her sister to went' in. fault of the jockeys or the horses, It was only fair that the race be Wales Borderers. In a statement wait for her while she It caused the suspension of four declared vold, or their money re-to the Police after his arrest the She did not reappear, so the young- accused admitted having snatched er girl came home. I went to the of the club's leading jockeys, and, turned.

hospital, and found that she had not some of the fans said, loss of some

The public wanted to put the the hand bag..

seen there. Since then we confidence in the club. It was the blame on Mr. Ruiz, assistant official Yesterday the Police asked for been

committal of the accused to the have heard nothing of her." first serious and unanimous protest starter of the club, who

The missing girl is 5ft 8in. in puuronize the Manila Jackey Club, rope to be raised at the proper/evidence, his Worship, taking into height, of alim build, and has fair Spain-according to the inhabitants confidence that they would return The rebellion which has troubled ever made by horse race fans that charged with not having caused the Assizes, but after completion of

be raised the tape was consideration the fact that accused bobbed hair, blue eyes, and a fresh which was organized some 25 years time..

A brown raised, letting four of the nine was only 28 years of age, decided complexion. She wore ago.

Directors Summoned. horses go, but half of it was not to deal with him summarily and check coat, with fur collar and

He cuffà, green hat, and black shoes. The board of directors of the club raised, keeping the other five out Passed sentence as stated.

directed that should the accused be were summoned hurriedly to a meet-of the race.

CAR THIEF WHO HAD NEVER ing to pacify the turf crowd, and

DRIVEN. after a brief deliberation presided over by Dr. Benito Valdez, presid- ent of the club, it was agreed to return all bets crossed in the first race amounting to more than P4,000, Losses to the club, however, were

Disregarding the public protest found unfit to be birched, he would against the first place, officials of have to do two extra months in jail. the club proceeded to prepare for

Recently the Government sent a) representative to the village but the inhabitants only insulted him and IMPORTANT MEDICAL SCHEME is intended to combat socialism.

Doctor Specialists At Reduced The civil governor of Andalusia then formed an organisation which

Fees. and the Home Secretary have now

the Government of Burma for several months is believed to be almost at an end. According to a Government statement, Saya Nyan, the notorious rabel leader, has sur rendered to the authorities and now only 16 mlaor rebels remain at. Uberty. All stolen firearms, except one revolver have been accounted for and the Thayetmyo district is again peaceful.

Saya Nyan' and a hundred other rebels are shortly to be tried.

A 15-year old boy who was the second race, which was run in absent from previous races, and his spite of the threatening attitude of house is very near the hippo-fined in the Hendon police-court car told the Betina, won giving di drome's premises. He arrived late for stealing a the crowd.

yesterday. vidends for first place tickets at

ing outside a house, and al- though he had never driven be magistrate he saw the car stand-

fore, he jumped in and succeeded

FAMOUS BERLIN CAFE CLOSES. in driving 60 miles to Cambridge, been obliged to take the matter up A proposal to provide consultant -... where he met with an accident. in order to get the Republie re- and specialist services at a reduced Tourist Traffic Slump Affects Unter He said he was able to drive becognised by this handful of vil-fee for members of hospital con-

Den Linden. cause he had read all about it in lagers.

tributory and similar schemes, and a book.

to establish a panel of consultants The famous "Cafe unter den Lin A merger of the leading Canadian with this object in view, will be den has had to close its doors be newperint intereats, involving considered at a meeting in London cause of lack of custom.

to run were ordered to be auspended P69 and place at P25.20. Second: The jockeys whose horses falled place was won by Dollars giving by the board. They are Adriano, P110 in dividends. Two other races Ariston, Alba, Vasallos and Eligio. were ran of nine scheduled for the

Money is Returned. morning, but the fans refused to

Not having funds to pay back buy tickets, boycotting the club.

the value of tickets sold in the first Recent Calling Police. The horse race fans were angered race, the money of the fans was nat only by the refusal of the club returned in the afternoon, after the

believed to be much mare, because in addition to the return of the proceeds from the first race, the club had to pay out dividends for the first race, estimated at more than P6,000, and pay prices for the other races during the morning where no bets were crossed, estim ated at more than P2,000.

Courting the possible income officials to annul the first race or second race. Many of the people which would have Come

Lord Meaton, distributing prizes

from order the return of bets paid in present in the morning failed to at Woodgreen Trinity School, ad- capital to the amount of $600,000,-| on December 10 of consultants and . It la at one of the busiest corners the cancelled races, the club was but because of the alleged calling return, and while the games were vised the pupils to consider the 006 (120,000,000 at par), is likely specialista living in the area of the of Berlin-Unter den Linden and understood to have sustained finan-out of police reserves with riat; brisk and lively during the latter scope for jobs in the Empire, rather to result from negotiations now in Metropolitan Counties Branch of the Friedrichstrasse, Before the

part of the afternoon and evening, than confine themselves to these progrese in Montreal, states the the British Medical Association. there was a much smaller crowd. Islanda.

cial loss of about P20,000.

The five horses to run in the morning among the nine in the schedule were caught by the tapo and were unable to start. This was after the club had sold out tickets valued at P4,040. First place tic- kets totalled P2,610 and second place at P1,430. The race was won by Bohemio, which gave a dividend for first place tickets at 2162.40 and place at P69.40. Second place was won by Adurna, giving a divi- dend of P44.20.

Starter Blamed.

1

The public, especially that part of it which put bets on the, other

the

Kuns.

They were indignant over calling out of policemen and threat- ened to inflict physical violence on all who had any connection with the management of the jockey club. They officials of the club, however, denied having sent for police re serves, explaining that the police reserves were called by the police. men on guard at the hippodrome because of the belligerent attitude of the crowd.

Some of the fans said that the absence of Mr. J. Cajigas, official! starter of the races, was out of the ordinary because he never has been

New York Times,

START

THE NEW YEAR RIGHT!

war it was known to everybody who visited Berlin as the Cafe Bauer

If the meeting gives an affirma tive answer a practical scheme will

But times have changed. There be drawn up according to a memor is practically no tourist, traffic in andum-fasued by the Medical De Berlin at present, and business In partment of the B.M.A. and pub the cafe became so Black that the lished in the British Medical Jour- proprietors decided to close the

This will include an agreed place, They say:

nal.

schedule of fees and the appoint-We hope to reopen when times ment of a consultants, board, which are better."

would decide as to eligibility for

admission to the list.

ROADS OF POWDERED GLASS.

"At present," states the memor andum, "these services are largely Experiments have been under- provided gratuitously by the out- taken in Prague In the last few patient departments of hospitals.months on roadways made of glass. Were the scheme here proposed | A new Slovakian invention, a.com-*- adopted, it is not unlikely that many pound of cement and powdered persons who, in other circumstances, glass, was used.

would go to the hospitals, would It is claimed that the new roads prefer a consultation at the con are more durable, and in the Bum- aultant's private professional ad mer less susceptible to heat, than dress,"

the ordinary ones.

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