THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING
SATURDAY, 26th April, 1947.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.80 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m.
Through numbers (8 Racer-$10) may be obtained at the offe of the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, also tickets for the Special Carl Sweep (32.00) on he last raCU.
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Membery are reminded that they and their lailles MUST wear. their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting,
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
Club
Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and Rooms at $10 including tax are obtainable through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a Member, nuch Member to be responsibic for all chita, ete,
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be onanle
at the RACE COURSE,
The Treasurers' Compradore
Omce
will close at 11
am, and the Secretary's Office at 11.40 am. Both Offices at 1st floor, Exchange Building,
A limited number of timna will be obtainable at the Club House, provided they are ordernd in advanced from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27818).
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
Tho price of admission to the Public Enclosure JA $3 Including tax for all persons Including ladies, and is payable at the Gate,
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, elc., will not be permitted to operate: within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Hace. Meeting.
Enclosure.
Refreshments will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public
SERVANT'S PASSES.
Passen for Servanta will be issued to Private Box holders ONLY an application to the Secretary, 1st Floor; Exchange Building.
-Any person found tellering with Servants' passos in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the enclo⚫ure.
By ORDER
C. D. BROWN,
Secretary.
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MR. WALLACE ATTACKED
HOUSE OF LORDS
IN
Queen's Only Speech In S. Africa
Political Broadcast
Criticised
London, Apr. 22.
Mr. Henry Wallace was attacked in the House of Lords today for broadcasting a political speech to the people of Britain on a Sunday evening during his. recent visit here and for his "diatribes" against his own country in Britain. Lord Barney, initiating the debate, declared that Britain's position made it necessary for her to be "deferential and respectful" to the United States as long as American businessmen ob- jected to financial aid to a country which, was going against private enterprise.
Neither Mr. Attlee nor Mr.
Capetown, Apr. 23. Making hier only speech of the Royal, tour of South Africa, Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday ac- Churchill would have nccepted an epted the Honorary De-ffer to make political brond- gree of Doctor of Laws east on Sunday night, Lord Swin-
Ion declared. of Capetown University. Lord Listowel, who tomorrow
"Grent efforts and
Secretory high will become the idents must be nroused and State for India, replying to the stimulated by education but debate, said that Mr. Wallner had education in its highest sener," been invited by the BBC to give the declared, stressing the need his views on the broader aspects for education if the tired and hungry world was to be revived and reinspirited,
The brief address centred apon South Afrien and her im pressions of the Dominion.
"I was astonished and cap tured by the variety, beauty
and richness of the country, and I have seen for myself the warmhearted kindness of the people," the Queen said.
"I have also seen something of the problems which must be solved if your destiny is to be
· fulfilled,"
She expressed her confidenco in the outcome because "South Africans have a genius for solving problems."
Field Marshal Smuts, Chancellor of the University, welcomed the Queen and spoks of the "unifying influence you have brought into our relation Hips." Ho represented the Royal Visit as a mission of far- reaching significance.
The remembrance of It will help to bring us all closer to gether," he said, "and the me mory of It will become part of our social tradition."
The Royal Family, he added, had taken long journeys in or- der to know this country and this degree is a token of our gratitude."
rc-
The 1 bes. amiling all
ceremonies, through the ceived a prolonged ovation Associated Press.
Oslo. Apr. 23. Harold E. Stussen, gandidate for the Republican presidential
of
the present international sittin tion, and the Government did not intend to Interfere with the BBC's independence.-Reuter.
"A Dirty Trick" ·
Lendon, Apr. 23. Lerd Vansittart today dubbed Wallace's apenking tour in Britain "an exhibition of bad taste" alm- ed at hindering Mr. Bevin in his dealings with Russia.
"Some of Mr. Bevin's critics imported the woolly Mr. Wallace at the moment when he was most likely to embarrass Mr. Bevin in the conduct of his arduous and thankless task," the Conservative | Peer said during the House Lords debate.
MAY TRIAL
Washington, Apr. 22.
A jury of seven men and five women has been selected to decide the fate of former Representative Andrew May (Demacral, Kentucky) and three maubers of the multimillion-dollar Goraxons wunitions combine, who are charged with conspiracy, defraud, the Government.
The jury was chosen in a briak two-hour session at the opening of the trist before Federal Judge. Henry A. Schweinhaut.---Duited Press.
Public Protest
Hitler A
"Deceitful
Scoundrel"
Stuttgart, Apr. 22.
with Faced
a letter from Hiller to himself reading "I am delighted that you are willing to continue as my personal adviser in future," Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Ger- many's former financial wizard, exclaimed in court here today:
"This letter shows that Hitler was a deceitful scoundrel."
Schucht, who is defending him- self before the Stuttgart denazi. fleation court, added: "It
WHE Hitler's tactics at all costs to pre. vent outsiders gaining the im. pression that any disccrd had nrisen within the ranks of the Government."
The Public Prosecutor read the minutes of a secret Relch Cabinet meeting on September 4, 1930, nt- tended by Schacht, at which it was stated that war with the Savlet Union was inevitable,
The Prosecuter spid that Schacht must at least have re- cognised that Hitler was aiming at war.
Schacht replied that in 1938 the
Soviet Russia intended to start
Munich, Apr. 22. More than 1,000 Jews view had been widespread that of from the small city the war against Germany. He him
of
ncar self bad not shared that opinfon, Regensburg
"Mr. Wallace devoted a great
.......but never once did Mr.
The Prosecutor said that from
deal of attention to slamning Pre- Munich today staged and there was ne mention at the Use of an attack on Russia by sident Truman's polley la Greece public demonstration Germany.
protesting against the Dov Gruner execution in the fael that Schacht had been awarded the Golden Badge of the Palestine last week.
Nazi Party it was to be conclud The crowd gathered in fronted he was a Party member. of the synagogue in Regensburg's
Schacht replied that there, had city square, with banners saying had never been any talk of Party "We want free
entry to Pales
Walluce mention that the Krem- in has been doing a hundred times more through the eastern bloc for the past two years."
Lord Vansittart, who was form erly Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, added: "I think he came here to open an exhibition of tine" and "Long Live President membership. He himself had been bad taste, because he and his im-Truman." A written declaration but little pleased with the award. pressario and his fans have done of protest is to be forwarded to-Reuter. everything in their power to pre- vent Mr. Bevin from dealing with the Soviets on a bonis of reason.
"I think it was rather a dirty trick."-Assoclated Press.
"Non-Political Loan”
Paris, Apr. 22.
the British Consulate at Munich. Military Government officials sald the demonstration was or- ganized by
Jewish one of the groups to Regensburg, probably the "Revisionists." The central ecmmittee of Liberated Jews in |Regensburg yesterday refused a roquest for an offlelal daylong
Mr. Wallace, who arrived here, work stoppage. today on his European tour, to-
Newspapers
Confiscated
The Revisionista in Jewish
Prague, Apr. 22. night advicated over the French camps In Germany, however,
The Slovak trade un Radio that the United States make were Instructed to meet among a non-political loan to Russia themselves and to, deny then-ion_newspaper "Praca,' selves entertainment for a week mechanism of the as a "show of reaction" to the in Bratislava, today was through the United Nations as the best means {executions-United Press.
[of prescrying durable peace. nomination uf the United
Mr. Wallace said: “To preserve States, who is touring Europe peace, it is necessary to have a loft by plane for Goteborg, mechaniem in the United Nations Sweden, where he will change | by, which the misery in the great, planes for London.—Assoclated nieos of Russia can be taken care Press.
Laf."-Reuter.
HAVE AN H.B. AND THEN TRY
HR
confiscated for the third time in five days because
SHANGHAI JEWS it reported without com- DEMONSTRATE
Shanghai, Apr. 23.
An estimated 4,000 to 8,000 Jews, representing about one third
ment Czech newspapers editorials on the political effects of Father Josef Tiso's execution.
The Democratic Party organ,
题
for
of Shanghai's Jewish community, "Cas," also was confiscated this held a mass meeting in Shanglial morning because it printed Tuesday to protest against the long article defending the Party's murder by the British of Doy efforts to obtain clemency Gruner and three members of Tiso and accusing the Communists the Irgun Zval Leum, Jewish of responsibility for his death.
The Sloval police not only military organisation.
A resolution condemning the made the rounds of newspaper British action was passed and kiosks, but also confiscatel coples will be sent to the United No. of both papers in the editorial of- tions organisation and the Chin-fices and stopped pedestrians on ese Government.
of
the street to confiscale copies the Several speakers made Impas. peeple were carrying. According sioned addresses In which they to press law, distribution declared the Jews would keep on banned newspapers is punishable, fighting until Palestine was free but possession is tot United and Jewish. A1
One of them, G. Zuchowitzky, In Turkey, Too representing the worldwide or-
Istanbul, Apr. 23. ganisation Jishew Huew, said that Two morning newspapers were Jewish vengeance would be taken closed after an imposition of a
Press.
Mal
in the form not of 10 British state of alege. by, military order lives for avery Jewish one lost in on the ground they, violated
n
the struggle “hut of 10,000 Jewish directive "inviting" newspapers entries Into Palestine for every to avoid "incliing doubt" in the drop of Jewish blood spilled." discussion of the récent parlia-
Zuchowitzky, who recently ar- mentary elections. rived in Shanghai from Polcs- One of the newspapers closed Line, was repeatedly interrupted has as a co-publisher Cihat Baban,
by cheers.
deputy representing bithe : Démo- Several women wept during the cratic Party, Government Opposi meeting, which was concluded tien in the National Assembly. with "a prayer for the four dead. The other suspended paper was Jews by ព rabbi-Assocftated | published in the same plant as Preas.
Yeni Saban, a morning paper 'closed two
*
...
Ho Feoksian, Army contractor ciated Press:
of Ma Teu Wel Road, was, finod ¦
months ago.—Asso-
a total of $500 on two summonses Threa Chinese car drivers were for violation of his garage per-summmoned before Mr. d'Almado; mit by storing excess petrol and at Central yesterday, for sound- in a place other than ‘a well. It Ing horna "unnecessarlylin Queen's was stated by Divisional Officer Road, Central, or in Pedder Brooks that 1,077 gallons of Street, after midnight on Mar. 21. petrol
found were
От the Admitting the offence, pil were defendant's premises on April 4. 'cautioned.
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