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ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1947

13th, 14th and 18th January.

On each day the first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m.

Through numbers for the three days (24 Ruces-348) may be obtained at the Office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Ex- change Building, also tickets ($2.00 each) in the Special Cash Sweep on the Hong Kong. Derby to be run on the second day, Tuesday, 14th January,

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MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members are reminded that they and their Indies MUST wear their budges prominently displayed throughout the Meet ing.

NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED

TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.

Hedges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax are obtain able through the Secretary upon the written or personal in troduction of a member, such members to be responsible for all chits, etc.

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Edges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on

zale at the Race Course.

The Secretary's Office, 1st floor, EXCHANGE BUILD ING, (Tel. 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 12 NOON EACH DAY. A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 28211),

NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PROMISES DURING THE MEETING.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE:

The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3 per day including tax for all persons including ladles, and is pay. able at the Gate.

Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc.. will not be permitted to operate within the predfacts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.

Refreshments will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public-Enclosure.

SERVANTS' PASSER

Passes for Servants will be issued to Private Box holders ONLY on application to the Secretary, 1st Floor, Exchange Buliding.

Any persons found softering with Servants passes in their Possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the Enclosure;

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1947.

GERMAN PEACE TREATY Preparations For Moscow Conference In March

Britain Gives Hint

Berlin Leaders Ask For A Voice

Berlin, Jan. 13.

On the eve of tomorrow's opening of the prelimin→

ary talk on the German and Austrian peace- treaties, German political and official quarters here were hopeful that at least two and possi- bly three of the great powers will take a favourable view of their desire that German experts be heard by the Big Four Foreign Ministers, or their advisers." These quarters have not yet made formal ap-

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London, Jan. 13. A Foreign Office source today said Britain might refuse to recognize the Polish Government that

proach to the Allied Control authorities. results from next Sun- But already they are declaring Foreign Ministers will clear up day's general elections in that two of the Big Four are in the obstacles in the way of es

efined to regard in en afirma. | tablishing German economic unity! which overwhelming five sense the question whether and the formation of a central ad-

Two Planes HK-Bound Downed

The RAF stated yes- terday that a private chartered plane, without passengers,, has been lo- cated near Swatow after being forced down while flying from Shanghai to Hong Kong,

The only occupant was the|

дл American named

pilot,

victory for the Russian- the Germans should be heard be- minist with pessimism, how. Pickup, who is safe in Swatow.

dominated Government' bloc is expected.

fore

certain questions likely to

They come up in Moscow in March are

The plane, which landed on a three further points-re- Anally settled.

parations and dismantling of in-small island, was located by a Before Marshal Vassily Soko dustrial plant, German exporte passing ship which communica- Although official Warsaw an-lovsky, Soviet Commander-in- and imports, and territorial borted its information to the RAF nouncements said baliating would Chief in Germany, left for his der settlements in the East and at Kai Tak. be "free and unfeltered," Britain recent visit to Moscow from West,

which he returned A few days

Meanwhile, the Austriah Gov-A second chartered plane recently and the United States

ernment tonight made the first which left Shanghai for Hong the Ger move by submitting

anote re- Kong on the same day (Friday) questing the earliest and fullest was also forced down in the officials. | opportunity of participating on same vicinity but proceeded to

the, future of Austria.

Kal Tak the following day.

with

charged the Polish Government age, he discussed this proposal

unofficially bath security police with terrorism dur-mans as well as with ing the pre-election campaign. of high Allied Occupation or

It has also been suggested that Mr. Robert Murphy, Political Ad- viser to the United States Mili-

Government in Germany, takes a favourable view.

Britain's viewpoint has not vel been officially stated, but the Germans are hopeful that it will conform to that attributed to Soviet Russia Stater.

Britain recalled the British Minister fr consultations, but it was officially conceded here that little or nothing could be done by the Western powers to "protect the interests" of the opposition party. Both London and Washington have appealed to Moscow for Russian aid in ensuring the rights of the opposition Polish Peasant The view is held in Paris that Party of Vice-Premier Stanislaw in the absence of a central Lier- Mikolajczyk, Russia has repeated-man administration, no German ly expressed full satisfaction with representatives of any kind can Polish politics and sources clcse be heard.

to the Foreign Office believe there

is small hope of Russian help.- United Press.

and the United

Hopeful View

German political quarters take a fairly hopeful view that the

Crawled Five

Five Miles For Help

London, Jan. 13.

ject of discussion should be the The note argues that the sub.

reconstitution under internationa! law of the Austrian state doe troyed by Hitler, and that Aur- tria can evidently nut be re born in her own absence,

Main Issue

The main issue to be discussed by the Deputies for Germany, he sides collation of the total claims

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and views of the smaller Allied powers, is the question of whether or not any future German Gov- ernment should be required to put its signature to the oventual Ger- mun peace treaty.

The

Both planes were C-468 without passengers.

Air Line Refuses

Passage

Paris, Jan. 13.'

Canada is expected to align A French airline refused herself alongside the South Professor Johan Smertenko, African main point that Germany Vice-President of the American, be given no chance to re-arm in Committee for Free Palestine, future. Canadian spokesman

to. Heathrow Airport, said: "Canada has no desire to passage ask for a a harsh peace, but we feel London on Wednesday. that Germany must be handed no The passage was refused, easy "type of settlement."

according to a spokesman, be- Mr. Robert Murphy (United cause of "the warning handed] States delegates (or Germany) and General. Mark Clark (forto airlines here today by the Austria) spent all day with their British Consulate, technical experts and advisers in fessor Smertenko would be de- the final preparation

to ported immediately if he at morrow's opening of the confer- tempted to land in England."

When asked if he thought that'

for

the German Government should,

that Pro-

A British Embassy spokesman in Paris denied that the airlines "orders from

A Royal Armoured Corps officer, severely injured and, burned when a Dakota, with 25 aboard, crashed in the South of France, who crawled five miles in six hours through a raging snow- storm to get assistance for the only other sur- vivor, has been awarded the George Medal.

sign

the German, treaty. M. were following He is Lt. John Reginald in the morning in a storm at Murphy countered: "What Ger- the Home Office in refusing Linney (28), of Milden Road, Southampton, when, working upman Government? There are two Smertenko passage" He said Sheffield,, officer in command of to his waist in slime at the elements non-existent govern the British Consulate "merely the troops in the Dakota which, bottom of a 42-foot excavation ment and a non-existent treaty warned the airlines that

оп while on trooping operations, his only "neighbour" was a the question of

of prospects

Smertenko had been refused a crushed into a hill 2,000ft, high, 1,000 kilogram armour-piercing any economic unity by bringing visa to enter England and that

French and Russians in the dark between Catania | bomb

into the merged Anglo-American zone, he any airline taking. him would and Marseilles.

stated: "We certainly do not ex- therefore have to return him clude. the possibility."--Reuter. immediately to France.-Reuter.

Screened Fuse

A fierce fire followed the crush, and Linney, in addition

The bomb, whose fuse was broken arm, had severe screened with an extension and burns on the face and hands.

could not be identified, was in Hanover Buildings, Bargate, Fell Down Slopes and was in danger of being He spent some time searching covered by the mud. The round the wreckage and pumps had failed and the tim- although seriously handicapped bering appeared to be collap and in pain, began his crawl sing.

the

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WAAFS Attacked RAF Corporal With Piping

London, Jan. 13.

Over boulder-strewn Country. With L-Sgt. Spicer, of Buck-Three WAAF: clerks and a WAAF equipment as- difficult to negotiate even inhurst Hill, Essex, he descended "daylight.

und together they shored up In cressing trackless, areas the timber making the recovery he at times fell down steep of the bomb possible.

tacted a French motor trans- British Empire Medal (Military of rocks, but eventually con L-Sgt. Spicer is awarded-the

port formation and was able to Division), send help to the other survivor.

"The "London Gazette" an-1 nouncement of the award says he "displayed conspicuous gal- lantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner." Twenty-three Service men, all repatriated from Singapore, were killed in the crash.

sistant from RAF, Burtonwood, near War- rington, were at Warrington today bound over for six months and ordered to pay costs for in- flicting grievous bodily harm on Cpl. Derek Frank Wood, by striking him with iron piping. The chairman told them, "You might have killed him."

It was stated that when the

German Plot: WAAFS met in the mess for New Fuehrer

Planned

tea, one of them was crying,. and told the others that Cor- poral Wood had made insulting remarks to her,

Budapest Tension

They planned to wait for

Vienna, Jan. 13. Wood outside. and three of

Tension has risen in Budapes! them struck him with lengths where party leaders tonight were of iron piping. One of the in conference with the President, blows cut his signet ring in Dr. Zoltan Tildy, according to re-

parts reaching here.

The Communists are stated to The WAAFe were ACW El be demanding the expulsion frem

Stuttgart, Jan. 13. We had run into filthy wea- leader of the bomb attacks on LL. Linney said last night:¦ Siegfried Habus, the alleged ther and were ordered to make, Stuttgart, military and police

landing at Istrea just before headquarters and de-Nazifica- two. the crash-came."

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MANILA TRIAL

Manila, Jan. 14.

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