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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE TO MEMBERS

TOTALISATOR TRIAL RACE MEETING

Saturday, 3rd February, 1951.

There are four races. The First Bell will be rung al 3.15 p.m. and the First Race will be run at 3.45 p.m.

The Electric Totalisator will be in operation. The ticket issuing machines are of two kinkis:-

High Value machines which lasue $50, $100, $150, $200 and $250 tickets, and

Low Value machines which issuo $5, $10, $15, $20 and $25 tickets,

and these are clearly marked in the Selling Booths.

Crush barriers have been erected in the Betting Halls at and backers are particularly each ticket issuing point

requested to note that entry to a selling booth is to the left side of a machine, from the backers viewpoint, and exit from the right and this is clearly marked on the Selling Booth Counters.

Each machine is capable of issuing Win and Place, tickets on any pony starting in a race and the order in which backers should place their bets is as follows:--

state the amount of the bet

FIRST SECOND THIRD

state the kind of bot-WIN or PLACE state the number of the Pony Thus: $5 WIN Number 4

$10 PLACE Number 12

All winning tickets and tickets for refunds must be presented for payment at the race course on the day to which ther refer. Tickets not presented at once, after a race as run and dividenda declared, will be paid at the Late Pay Out windows which will be provided, but none will be paid later than one hour after the time for which the last race of the day has been scheduled to be run,

THERE WILL BE NO CASH SWEEPS FOR MEETING.

MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE

SETS OF MEMBERS' AND LADIES' BADGES WILL NOT BE ISSUED FOR THE 1951 RACING SEASON UNTIL 18T APRIL, 1951. 1950 SETS ARE VALID UNTIL THEN.

Members and guests are reminded that they and their Indice MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.

NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED ALL BADGES ISSUED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. FOR PREVIOUS TRIAL MEETINGS ARE CANCELLED. Badges admitting ladies not in possession of Brooches or Season tickets and gentlemen, non-members of the Club, $10.00 Enclosure and Club Rooms at to the Members' including tax, for ladies or gentlemen are obtainable through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a member, such member to be responsible for all visitors Introduced by him, anki for payment of all chits etc.

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

The Secretary's Once at 1st Floor, Telephone House. will close at 1.00 p.m.

LOU

BUT TO BE WITHOUT

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World Coparight. By arrangement with Dolly Herald.

Secret Of The Tank

Was Not

T

HE death on January

16 at Oxford at the of 82. of ago

Major-General: Sir

Betrayed

By Peter Lovegrove

Ernest Swinton, KBE, CB, DSO, the originator of the tank, recalls his persistent, an to bear

the "Jabberwock with eyes of flame," the "Travelling Tur- ret," "Touring Fort" "Giant

"Whate" Road." *Skig."

and

even

.G. WARD PRICE WRITES ON HONGKONG

Empire Exhibit Number One

de-

there is one place I the way, or even for a Chinese should like to see re who understands English.

Ono Government official produced life-size at the aned Hongkong as the biggest Festival of Britain as "Bri "displaced persons" settlement tish Empire Exhibit No. 1," in the world. it is Hongkong.

Since the Communists coa- Here you have the British quered the whole of China, one

and A hair

million refugees colonial spirit at its best. have crossed Hongkong's border Some were who brought

It is a compound of tradi- on the mainland. tion, common sense, con rich merchants

capital with them, but most fidence, and enterprises; were poor traders and peasants

Others may be writing uprooted by the civil wer

Three hund 1 thousand of

have go them

back to China,

off Hongkong as a stake as good as lost already to Com- but 330,000 otra still live as munist China, but not the "squatters" in shacks they have officials who administer it or built for themselves wherever the traders who have made they can find a plece of waste it busier today than it has ground. been in ita 100 years of his- tory.

While the Americans are closing down their banks in the Colony, and the United States Consul advises his

Not Popular

the

the

One factor in the British mood of confidence is the argument that the Chinese would be able to make no use of Hongkong if they did take it. They have no navy for a defence, and countrymen to get out while Communist Government is con- its troops and its they can the British

contrating are attention on Manchurin and the building big blocks of flats, North. It is not popular in the the Cantoneze-- new schools, police stations, South, where

the "Cockneys of China" and hospitals. They are

recent Russian domination blasting and quarrying into the Peking regime. the steep hillsides to make more room for ex- lions and six artillery regiments pansion.

of

Five British fnfantry batta-

make up the fores guarding the They are prolonging the run- 13-mile frontier that aeparates ways of the airfield, so that the mainland territories of planes will be able to land at Hongkong from Red China. night. The hotel in which I am what I saw there reminded me staying has only been up a year, of the "Frontiers of Fear," of but it is being doubled in size. which last year I made a tour A stranger would say the British In Western Asia. But here the in Hongkong must feel safe for Red flag a century to come.

Odd Conduct

of Jom flies

the Union

oppus

A

Arrow iron

bridge spans

at

ກ Insignificant stream

Mankantao, Half-way across it

Odd conduct for the only bit there is barbed-wire entangle- By April 1917, many improve-of British territory that has a ment, on the far side of which ments had been made in tank la frontier. with Communism, stands a quiit-jacketed Chineze

other offensives but it is the sort of eccentricity end is guarded by o

energetic and eventually partly through the vision

drive of Winsion Churchill, but GHQ asked for 40 machines in small numbers at Messines, that did much to bring the Em- formed Chinese of the Hong-

warfare

The

for

ments to mode? Ing

and stalemate, and original Mark I Tank.

conceived the idea of the new

weapon.

And four years later,

the

First trial

when the end came, a German military historian wrote: 11 This was consider that we were not quickly dubbed "Mother" and

Lot of prodding

ΠΕ

of menu

Into action

Colonel

DI

the

the first title

CUT-

Very

secretly

later,

tho

VIKU

to

BCC KITHS or

are

into the

odd

outtops the Hongkong

A

up

paid

Communist

took a lot of prodding before her performance perfectly. Lorded the Channel inks croes- the British tanks, assigned this merchants reply that trading

appreciated the potentialities Kitchener

aliti sceptical

of this revolutionary new wea

роп.

sector

of

£85,000 by Government

Switch Back

tho

to

plenty of design, and they were employ- and that only 24 miles away... Communist policeman, while our fruit-and then toy." There were

blue-uni- and other sceptica over the BEF ed in several

and at Passchendaele,

only to pire into existence, and may help kong Police Foret who successful advocacy of an who was First Lord

and of the to be built and sent out,

the constant of to preserve the pieces that are vigorously trisks It was finally decided to maks founder in the liquid mud armoured fighting vehicle Admiralty at the time.

4 what degenerated into a swamp | left.

stream of foot-passengers pour- at 150-75 Engineer-in-Chief

being "destroyers"

and it was not until battle, with caterpillar tracks

The "old China hands," who ing in from Red China, to ДВ GHQ France,

Lord Kitchener with 8-pounder guns, and

new call the tune to which Hongkong that they

carry no the answer to the combina (the Secretary War), and "corsorts" carrying only four November 1917 that the

are gold. These weapon fully established itself keeps up is lively dance,

policemen tion of barbed wire and the War Office all turned Vickers machine-guns to pro-

with 跑 resounding victory under no illusions about the risks within . few yards of each which marks a new epoch machine-guns which made down the idea in the first place, toet the destroyers from enemy

of the Colony's position. If over. viker, but they never speak. but while the scheme was lying troops at close range.

and ushered confidence was their defect ten military history defence the German

80 moribund in Army charmels, Until then "Mother"" had

Brisk Traffic · in the age of mechanisation.

years ago, life in a Japanese pri- formidable in World War Churchill sanctioned the ex- been described as a landshlu

The trafic son camp taught many of them

is surprisingly One.

penditure of £70,000 from the

or landcruiser, but it was felt

to be realista.

brisk, for much of the goods It was in October 1914 that

Admiralty

budget for expert that these names gave away the

This was the battle of Cam-

"It we got jittery," said one of shipped into China from Hong- Swinton, ♫

whole secret of what was be- the then Colonel

bral Four

hundred tank the leading British business men kong goes this way. A convoy Sapper who had won the D50 The arst

aimed at, and she was

in Hongkong to me, gazing out of lorries laden with fertiliser svi were brought up very secretly South in the

African War. was built by Messrs W. Foster

a monosyll- christened tank" realised while acting as Official and Sons at Lincoln, but it able which was preferred to under cover of night and made of the windows of his sump has just arrived and strings of spacious office across coolies are carrying backs surprise attack at six o'clock tuous and Correspondent to

"container," the British was a failure, and a very muro

the the crowded harbour, "If we got across the bridge, as no wheel- in the morning. The first Expeditionary Force in

which France larger track machine was de servoir" and

Wo Germans

ed trame is allowed to pass the knew of the Britian jittery, we should be lost. which

be- eventually that the Ailles faced a protract- vised

had also been advanced. As

but frontier. the prototype of ed and costly period of trenes came THIS

security measure, reports were plan was when the tanks 100m- can't see alx months ahead, but

the autumn

we are planning for years. fog and deliberately

Piercing squeals all the air spread that the ed out of

advanced lines. This policy is not without its machines were water-carriers overran their

the dozen across the bridge in for the troops in Palestine, or In a few hours, they had ad-rewarda, Until the American from suffering pige carried by vinced about 10 miles on a Government put an embargo on wicker baskets slung from poles, snow-ploughs for the Russian 12,000 yard front through the the shipment of raw materiāls to

"With HMS Centipede... Army, the legend

Care

and 8,000 the Colony on the ground that and thrown roughly

lorries with characteristic To Petrograd" being painted in Hindenberg Line,

100 guns

bad they might be re-exported to Chinese callousness, beaten by the genius of Mar- her offspring "Big Willies Russian letters 12 inches high prisoners and

Ching Ho

Hongkong China is a land of anomalies. shal Foch, but

by General which had its first official trial on both sides of each machine. been captured with practically Communist

was making twice Tauch no loss the same area

Ban Otherwise it would seem Tank in conjunction with the under the trees of Hatáciu

Although thousands widespread reinforcement at Park, near London, in February were concerned in the making ground which had taken three money as it ever did before that the biggest building going

at Passchen- Nor does this prosperity como the Americans."

1918 before an assemblage of of these tanics, the secret was months to win

dnele at a cost of 400,000 solely from selling war material up in Hongkong should be for Cabinel ministers and high not betrayed.

of mil-to our potential enemies the the Communist Bank of China casualties and scores and soun shilors and soldiers,

To that a huge structure of 20 stories, 11ons

of artillery Chinese Communists. of pounds

still in the steel-girder stage. through its paces after went It has been said that no

American which charge, which Ammunition. tion loves military reformna again for King George V.

Swinton was also Eight months

on Scripps-Howard group of new Although or hates so

"Mother," a little as our own,

8, 1918 dubbed

cost £2.000.000. the papers expressed in the words: and Shanghai Bank next door.

It is originator of the Heavy August much to think that the glory brows 30-tonner with a pair

Gun Corps, "Black

of the German "American lives are being sacri- British firm of contractors has day Section, Machine wheels formun of our army must be "eternal large steering

of what became Army" by General Ludendorft,ficed while Britain builds

British been wea strange

a kind of wagging tall be renewed

with

which waddled along at abou

Corps. The Hindenberg's Chief of Staff- her Hongkong trace," the Royal Tank pons and unfamiliar methods."

first companies and Certainly, the military machine 4 miles per hour, went through

a' definite August 1910, time

part in the with China is only a compara- supervise the work.

small antively

part of their Lord and a

month later, 32 of the strategic scheme, secured entirely remained

Anyhow, It business, and that, strange new monsters tum- even more decisive victory, and stated that

bered into action in the Flers- was the beginning of the end American exporters were doing never be won by Colonel Swinton planted War would

Courcellettes

the

the same by way of the Philip of the Kaiser's Germany. Somme Front against the ad-

pines, vice of all those who had given

Great Entrepot most thought to the potentlab- ties of the new arm, and who wished them to be used in large numbers in one great transferred to other duties into the fact that it is now the

dirtiest paper-money in stroke to effect overwhelming 1017 and had toured the United only great trade entrepot for surprise

whole of the States lecturing on war aims. the

Far East, the Empire.

The houses of its wealthier lo goods

South The first, faltering steps of But his most treasured posses-

thealing

Singapore,

Borneo, inhabitants again stand like Africa, young etécl giants were slon was a telegram from

Ch their precipitous and

other castles many moderately successful Brigadier General who had led Sarawak,

ags, commanding the finest at Cambrai which places. they advanced through the the tanks

Fortunately, the "All ranks thank you.

American views in the world; the desper barrage

No Man's reads:

the ately steep roads climb ban on the shipping of cotton Peak in daring curves; gleam- Land, crushed wire, trench and Your show."

After but did not effect a

the war, he won to Hongkong has been relaxed. Pea parapet,

motor-cars mg Otherwise by

might have g there breakthrough

1,000 guinens complete

and

awarded

street Το on been

unemploy- BEELD Royal Commission the

widespread several broke down. NEW YORK. slans have just paid taxes on

TO

this miniature Awards. In achieve

of ment, recognition

since the Colony con- over-taxel, shabby England the OST sometimes be the 45-room mansion in which s

GLICOSS, wrote Churchill in his great services to the Royal fans thirteen big cotton mill general air of affluence is like UNO delega-

and three or four

hundred a switch back to the prosperous! tween 1993 and 1999. they house their June

carry his 'World Crisis, "and to

Tank Corps, he was made its and

maller factories, and hunger past of Britain. the education of the professional Colonel Comunandant from 1934 mall

There

WILS.44 was Chichele would

surplus And the

political un-' stimulate 1,000,000 babies.

1938. He further for to one stage PEACE OF MIND? Don't mind

£15,000,000 in the revenues missing babies are giving

of

Military History rest.

Income- war which. Professor of strive too hard for it, says ward, a secret

would have Washington

For Hongkong is not so much Honglong last year. University for well used,

pro-at Oxford Kart Menninger. psychologist

wrote world-shalting victory years,

number of a British Colony as a piece of tax, after generous deductions, cured a headache.

"People search so hard for Cu 1917

recklessly had been

and China administered by Britain. is ten percent. novels, some reminiscences The in During the years of economic that they don't have any.

lost two Got

This grander Gibraltar of the congested ulso responsible for Wis the ten-revealed to the enemy."

flags Far East testimony to the depression, America's birthrate only way to control

of flaunting made a translations of French works. Chinatown The nows however la to lose.

can still dropped. This year the boy slon of the times

home, and But it is as the inventor of the and gally-coloured shop-signs success that Britons yourself in love, in thinking of great sensation at babies of 1933 become 18.

for make of their affairs, when free Into the and you will look in vain a tank that he passes play.

the popular newspapers had want at others, lu

in talk and The armed forces

you enterprise is given a chance. Bold day with descriptions of annals of history.

another European to tell least 450,000 of them; they are work." running out of available nen CENSORSHIP in the city of

Memphis Tennesson (popula between 19 and 25.

Defence

332,000) Sceretary Marshall tion

has put proposes a rehabilitation

Chaplin's 20-year-old pro- Charlie gramme for the physically and "City Lighta" The author¡lica mentally unat. Those who say there is nothing, against the cannot be made fit for military picture but that the comedian servico would be given work is "a traitor. to the Christian of national importance.

way of life, an enemy of de- GENERAL EISENHOWER cency, virtue and marriage." should remember that Columbia SHOW BUSINESS: For University's trustees believe second time Britain's elderly Entries close to the Secretary, Tolophone House, 1st floor, that he is only on a temporary actress Ethel Griffles gets star-

assignment at 3.00 p.m. on Thursday, 1st February, 1951.

in Europe. So sind

Broadway bravos for they are sending him his 5ft making

a revival of "The Please enclose entry form in the green envelope by art. walnut desk and his Royal Family" hit.

4

For ita green Inather owivel chair. second month, "King Solo

A limited number of times will he obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tol, 27818).

NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING,

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3.00 Including tax for all persons including indies, and is payable at the Gate.

BOOKMAKERS, TIC TAC MEN ETC., WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB DURING THE RACE MEETING.

MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAIN-

THE IN

PUBLIC RESTAURANT ABLE IN THE ENCLOSURE,

SERVANTS' PASSES

Servanta passes will be issued to private box holders only, who are requested to distribute them with discrimina- tion and to endorse their names on the passes, Holders of auch passes are not permitted in the Members Enclosure except for passing through on their duties and must remain In their employers' stands,

BY ONDER,

8. A, SLEAP,

Secretary.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

ANNUAL RACE MEETING 1951 24th, 28th February and 3rd March and

Hong Kong Darby 12th May 1951 Draft Programmen and Entry Forms for the above may bo obtained at the Secretary's Ofco, Telophone Houso; the Club House, Happy Valley and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.

provided.

By Order,

which would the seeds of his proposed such machines, "machine-gun destroyer" in be knocked out by the enemy's

wax artillery. many high places, but it

It was, he consider- many

"pretty mechanical months before one be- ed, just a

America's

Babies

Lost

From NEWELL ROGERS

a rearmament

the

only

across

Lecture tour

Swinton, however, was

due

At the fx of the war, five years ago, Hongkong was a

its "shamblcs,"

and houses busines

and premises looted gutted! Its harbour blocked by ships. Today it has re-

finest buildings and

Sunken all its former dignity

longer at the helm, He had been The Hongkong boom is having

14

in this

POP

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out

HOW MANY

PEOPLE HAVE YOU WORKING HERE NOW, Pop?

The Impossible

ONLY ME

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tha

DBOOKMAKERS In London mon's Mines." starring Deborah

who offered 1,000: io: 1 ugaînes ·Kær und Stewart Granger, WäÐ' 8. A. SLEAP,

war this your may be reas the top money-carmina-2 fum Secretary.sured by the nows from Glen (about £271,000); In Decem-

Cove, Long Island The Bus ber

the

the

by the

line

every the visitor from

Office routine.

of of