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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE TO MEMBERS'

FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING Saturday, 8th February 1947.

The first bell will be rung at 1.60 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00, p.m.

Through numbers & Races-$16) may be obtained at the Office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor Exchange Building, also tickets for the Special Sweep ($2.00) in the last race.

MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members are reminded, that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meet- ing.

NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.

are qbtain-

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

Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the RACE COURSE.

The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11 a.m. Both Offices at Ist

and the Secretary's Office at 11.45 am).

flour. Exchange Building.

A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable at the

Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the

No. 1 Boy Tel. 27818).

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NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S

- PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

:

The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate.

Booáruckers-Tic Tac men,--eta-will not be permitted to

operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club

during the Race Meeting..

Refreshments will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the

Publie Enclosure.

SERVANTS PASSES Passes for Servants will be issued to Private Box holders ONLY application to the Secretary, 1st Fleer, Exchange Building.

Any persons found itering with Servants' passes in their possession Will forfeit the some and will be removed from the Enclosure.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary,

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INDIA'S STERLING BALANCES Mr. Churchill Cross-Examines Mr. Dalton Britain's Debt To BEAUTY QUEEN

MIGRATION DOWN UNDER

Canberra, Feb. 5,

2. B. Chifley, the Austra lian Prime Minister, told a pters conference yesterday that he had made direct ap- proaches to the British Prime Minister on means for bring- ing more British migrants to. Australia.

TheRe

communications, de sald, were being followed up in London by J. A. Beasley, the Resident Minister there, The main problem to be over- cone was the shipping short- age.Associated Press.

CRADLE TO

ALTAR SEX EDUCATION

Blackpool, Feb. 4. Kindergarten-children Will begin learning the facts of life with their Bible and fairy stories, according to a plan an- nounced today by the Blackpool Education au- thority.

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pro.

The plan, which seta up almost cradle-to-altar gramme of education, will end in the senior year when the students will finally be taught the correct biological terms.

The plan specifically provides for elementury facts on sex to be introduced in scripture talks and fairy stories to "infant schoo" youngsters.

Meanwhile, in Londen, Dr. Edward F. Griffith, consultant of the Marriage Council, recommendet engaged couples go to the Mar- riage Guidance Centre two months before the wedding "to allow plenty of time for correction of any minor ditions."

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Her Friends

P: London, Feb. 5. Winston Churchill, referring to India's sterling balances in the House of Commons today, ask- ed the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "Is it now a fact that the Governor-General of India in the time of the late Government was notified that Great Britain reserved her full right to present a counter-claim on account of the effective defence of India by all means-land." sea air and diplomacy-by which the freedom of India from foreign invasion was secured?" The Chancellor, Mr. Hugh Dalton, replied: "I can- not charge my memory but he was Prime Minister and if he says such a message was sent I would not for a moment challenge it. That is, a fact of history."

Churchill: Is

that point State for India, analysing the going to be made? How could causes of Britain's" financial we accept the great concessions position, declared that through made on lend-lease by the the part she played in the war United States and yet divertale saved India, Egypt and large proportions of our re- maining assets to payment of an exactly similar war debt to

the Indian Government?"

Dalton: I would prefer to sions have advanced. wait until preliminary discus-

in mind?"

Churchill: "Will he bear it -Dalton: "Yes",

This exchange between Chur- chill and Daltor

followed a question by Colonel Crosth- waite-Eyre (Cons) who asked with what countries negotia- tions were not proceeding rela- tive to the liquidation of block- e sterling balances.

Dalton said preliminary dis cussions were taking place similar discussions with Egypt with India to be followed by

and Iraq.

SENTENCED

Liverpool, Feb. B.

A former Beauty Queen. Mary Hilton, who is expecting her fourth child, was sen- tenced to life imprisonment. yesterday after she pleaded.

her five-

guilty to daughter

year-old trein Evidence

showed that she administered poštan to The twins, another eight-year-old daughter and herself, follow- ing the breaking of of a repuance with an e-Service- man. The older child re-- covered. Associated. Press.

many other countries from the

errors of conquest.

But saving

other countries from these horrors seemed to have been very expensive and today Britain owed her friends abroad between: £3,000,000,000 and £4,000,000,000-Reater.

POLISH AMBASSADOR IS REBUKED

Washington, Feb. 4. President Truman, in accepting the credentials of Dr. Josef Winlewicz, new Polish Ambassador to the United States, today declared that the Polish Provisional Government had failed to fulfil its pledge to hold free elections.

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"It is a cause of deep concern to me and to the American people that the Polish Provisional' Government has failed to fulfil that pledge." the President said. The charge was made by the President in his reply to a formal state- No "Finalisation"

ment by the Ambassador. This reply, unusually brief, Walter Fletcher (Cons.) ask. said, "I can assure you that the observers to end' any specula

This was considered ed. "In view of the crushing American people have followed tion that the amount of -Indian sterling with the greatest interest the might break off diplomatic re- United States balances and special circum- efforts of the Polish people to lations Guidance

stances attached to them. will meet the urgent task of recon-ment because of the way it had with Polish Govern-! Mr. Dalton give an assurance tnto arrangements will be striction and to establish their conducted the recent elections. SERVICE FOR PASSENGER & FREIGHT finalised until scuted to the House?"

Dalton said the 'discussions had just begun and any con- clusion reached which satisfactory to the Government

that

the

con-

Dr. Griffith explained that a "broken-engagement is better than a broken marriage."

In a six-page survey on pre. marital sex educatinh, he said, that good homes where sex is never mentioned are as bad or worse than those in which sex is loosely discussed.-United

Presa.

'they are pre-

national life."

"The Government of the United States gave expression

-Reuter,

to this interest in the Polish Sydney

British and Soviet Governments was Peeple when it joined with the would certainly be notified to in important decisions concern- Ing Poland that were taken at Yalta and Potsdam".

the House.

House Of Lords sterling balances

Another reference to India's

The President. continued:

during a debate

WAS made. The Government of the United

change Control

on the Ex-States has not lost interest in Bill in the the welfare br the Polish House of Lords, where, Lord people. It is with this in mind Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of that. I offer to you the esopera- tion of the officials of this Gov- ernment"

Moscow Radio Takes

A Dim

View

London. Feb. 4.

Moscow Radio quoted a "New Times" article to- day on Anglo-American military cooperation which said: "One can only assume that the combined staffs are working out plans for future operations."

Wharf Strike

Sydney, Feb. 4. Wharf labourers have been structed to refuse any work today unless the men auspended yesterday are reinstated.

gus-

Wharf labourers were pended at most Australian fused to accept work between ports yesterday when they re 5 pan. and 11 pm. and also refused to work overtime.,

New Neighbours In his formal remarks, the Ambassador made no mention of the recent elections but ex pressed the desire of the Polish Government for best relations tervened and referred the mat- The Federal Government in- with the United States and re-tep to the Federal Arbitration ferred to the new neighbours

Court-

of Poland and to the transfer The Waterside Workers Fed- of several million persons to eration has banned night work- populate the country's new and overtime to enforce its western territories. The article by Gen long range plans for Anglo-

demands for two weeks annual President Truman accepted holiday at 176 shillings a week. lokhtianov said that military American Cooperation." The the envoy's designation as Am- pdration between Britain and paper claimed the British Gov-basador of the "Republic of weeks at 121

Ship-owners offered. two the United States was "unusual ernment was compelled to deny Poland."

shillings and in the history of international any intention of merging forces

three pence a week-Reuter. relations" since relations such with the United States,

these between Britain and t -France were simply those

is not surprising that. of British and American circles necessity.

found it necessary to deny such "In 1942, Britain and the reports," the "New Times"! Soviet Union signed a treaty said, "s standardisation of

of alliance, collaboration and equipment would make Britain inutual assistance after the still more dependent upon 17 war," the "New Times" said, America to an extent that it! "but in the first two years of is abandoning its own measure- the war military cooperationments for the metric system." was confined to the delivery of The "New. Times" concluded: arms and supplies

"There have been already rej The New Times" reviewed ports of British, airmen being British and American wartime trained in dropping military cooperation which, it bombs which at present are atomic said, was exceptionally close, produced only in the United

added: "There is talk of States."-United Press.

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