1955-07-01 — Page 4

Page 4.

What's best in Kowloon ?

THE CHINA. MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1955.

AVOID WASTE

USE THE "SIMPLEX" SPIRIT TAP FOR RAPID SERVICE ÄND "ACCURATE MEASURE

M. ARTHUR & CO.

THE JEWELLERS

40, Nathan Road. Kowloon.

G.

PRINCESS GARDEN

ייי

FAMOUS PEKING FOOD

PRINCESS THEATRE BLOG, KOWLOON 54169.

NEW STOCKS

Washable Silks, Mercerized Cottons & Other Lovely Silks

Accessories Available

Straw Belts in all Colours and Lovely Shades of Dacron for

Men's Suits made to order.

Maya's & Co.

120 Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Telephone 54708,

KOWLOON

RESTAURANT

AIR CONDITIONED

Famous Chinese & European Food

DINE, WINE & DANCE NIGHTLY

MISS JULIE & HER ORCHESTRA

221D-E, Nathan Rd., Kowloom. Tel: 57171

TE

Did It Happen?

A

story with twist. racing

FACT or FICTION?: The solution will be given tomorrow.

by Lord

Kilbracken

B

ETWEEN March 1946 and February dreamed 1949 1

seven times I knew the next day's racing re- sults. My seven dreams in- volved 10 horses, because three times, on waking, I could remember two ners. Generally 1 dreamed

win-

I was reading the next day's! paper, but once I was on the

REMEMBER! FLEXIBILITY!"

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardlum

GAMBLED

WITH DREAMS

Drawing by Kolman

.. Pretence fed throughout to win in a conter by several lengths,

course, once I called my really must be something in it "Remember Pretence, Tom?" Peaceful Surrounding — Satisfactory Service-Moderate Charge bookie for the result and at, though I couldn't even be I asked him. "Here's a coinci

MELBOURNE HOTEL

2-12, Mody Rd. Kowloon. Tel: 59168

All rooms with telephone and air-conditioned and Rediffusion. rooms with private bath

ZORIC DRY CLEANING

CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A "ZORIC” UNIT. IS BUT ONE IN THE COLONY. IT IS USED AT

THERE

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

Call 58266 For Collection and Deliveries

B. B. CO.

ALL KINDS OF MODERN

LAMPSHADES

exporter and retailer ORDERS ALSO TAKEN *

86 Nathan Rd. and 214 Granville Rd. KOWLOON.

Tel. 80144.

SCMP

KOWLOON

BRANCH

OFFICE

ADVERTISING, PRINTING. STATIONERY, SUNDRIES, SALISBURY RD. TEL. 52638

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS

once I heard a broadcast of gin to think of any explanation. dence for the race.

on

how-

Worse was to follow. ever. He had been scratched in order to run in ağainor race, at Lingfield that very Friday afternoon.

you-we meet by I therefore made the biggest chance, and he's running in "the I started off with six bet I'd ever even contemplated next race."

Bindal £20 win double and also a straight winners:

His race was already over and But reither of us put on

certain a I now felt absolutely (5-4), Juladin (5-2), conditional bet-£8 to win

I must Seems crazy now, but that this was the race were penby. Tuberose (100-6), Mentores either horse if the other

beaten.

we didn't. My brother had a have dreamed about, (6-4), Baroda Squadron

and couple of bob on Pretence, and (11-10) and The Brogue Pretence started at 8-1

Monk's Mistake at 0-1, so I he led throughout to win in a (9-1 o). That would have stood to win £1.240.

I would canter by several lengths. been

ип accumulator of lose £36 if both horses

beaten, which more than 800-1.

of course

were

As I wanted the usual wit-

Another dream

I could only afford small couldn't afford. stakes of my "naps," but my winnings so far were £71 14s, ness. I told a colleague, Tom 7d. At this point I had my first Phillips, about the dream. failure if indeed it was really Pretence won easily. Monk's a racing dream-my first for five a failure. In October 1947, two Mistake Was leading 33 he long years and seven long

A month later, I suddenly had

Third Bares Kilbrocken of Killeys is the official titis of John Godley, the wii-known author and journalist. Edventud at Eten and Balliol, he spent the war" in the first All Arm and wen

awarded the DIC in 1945. En 1959, when he was on the Sunday

Express, be accomplished a 12,000 mile con trip to Christchurch,

New Zealand, which kis great-grandfather hoa founded a century

baften. – An sxpert on korse racing, be is 34.

I'd not only lost my "pony," I'd missed by several hours the opportunity to back a dream horse in a cace I now felt sure he would have, won,

The first piece of news. to greet me in the paper next morning was that the

Man- chester course was floods. The November Handicap had been cancelled.

It is only in the very unlikely event of a race being cancelled that ante-post stakes are saved an non-runners. This was the Erst time for 28 years that the November had been called off.

Very close

I turned to the racing resuřis and found that Pretence had been beaten the previous day. 1 re- But, as I looked closer, alised my dream had been al- most completely accurate all the

same...

:

weeks before the race, I back- approached the last fence. His months. I dreamed I saw the ed Clam to win the Cambridge- jockey; Attie Corbett, told me result of a race as it was being shire.

later he was then confident he pinned on a board, and the re- would win by at least six sult was as follows: PRÉTENCE The night before the race, I lengths.

33-1.

He appeared in the results as dreamed he won it.

But

But his horse hit the top a

follows: PRETENCE 3 3/1. In My old friend Pretence! I other words he had. Anished lost that last fence, pecked on land- was in Ireland, where I now third st three to one. Say the ing, and wouldn't race the last live, and at once told the dream two phrases aloud-"Thind

$18.00

finished nowhere, înd £10,

f

In this dream alone,

he

THE DAY MANNY SHINWELL

USED

T

HIS FIST

By ROBERT PITMAN

HE heckler had sworn

to break up the meet- ing. Leading ал angry mob, he fought his way past the stewards and thrust his head between the doors..

It was as far as he got. At this point a fist smotë him hard between the eyes and he was carried to the nearest infirmary for treat- ment.

EMANUEL SHINWELL

....lone course.

The year was 1917. The place: Glasgow. And the fist belonged to the right arm of Councillor Emanuel shinwell refused and lost his

Shinwell,

Shipwell then climbed on the platform, and opened the meet- ing. His subject? The need for peace by negotiation.

Now Manny Shinwall is slip ping into the role of elder states- man. He has retired from the Front Bench, He written his memoirs.*

has eve

ERRAND BOY

seat along with 237 other Socialist MPs He joiced 2,900,000 other unemployed.

Then he took a poorly-paid job as a Socialist, Party propa- provided unless local parties gandist. Expenses were not

helped.

One local committee respectfully booked him a room at the best hotel in Newport but failed to pay the bill. The text morning saw. this Minister trudging through New- port in, search of somewhere to pawn his overcoat.

What is the Shinwell story? It begins in Spitalfields, Lon- His return to Parliament rằng don, where Emaquel Sainwell with irony. At a key meeting was born 70 years ago, the first of Clydeside MPs, in 1922 hé of a tailor's 13 children,

had been the first to propose Ramsay MacDonald as Socialist Search for business took the leader, In Seaham at the 1935 farmily north. In Glasgow General Election be toppled the Shinwell started work as da

the

errand boy at the age of 12, old man to his final fall by But every evening found him in majority of 21,000 votes.

public library, reading During the Second World War until the doors shut at ten. Shinwell became the

Govern ment's mast constant critic. On Sunday afternoons, a boy. He and Lord Winterton, strange.

wonder among herklers, he vented his sweated learning aty paired in opposition, earned the title "Arsenic and Old "Speakers Corner"

Gaol

Lacc Such criticism, Shin- Square.

0 well claims, worried Churchill's

in

With this training Shinwell lesser men more thap Churchill,

soon became paramount among

the notorious — ""wild men" of

Clydeside. After clashes between

police and strikers on Glasgow's

A SCAPEGOAT

Red Friday Shirwell got 0 In the Commons tea-room one sentence of Ave months for Tory M.P. appealed to him. inetement-two more months "After all," he pointed out, "the than Willie Gallagher,

P.M. bas great military gifts. His ancestor was the Duke of Marlborough."

i 1

Barely three years after leay Ing Calton Prison Shinwell became an M.P.

"If military genius can be handed down," cracked Shin-

Ramsay MacDonald noted his ability and gave him posts in well, then I should be a good both his Governments Lonely, critic. My ancestor was Moses," Ainching at every jab of criti- cism, he would invite Shinwell to his Hampstead home where they faced the garden together.

CHIEE THEME

chief theme was /Ramsay's the disloyalty of colleagues and especially of Snowden whom he

denounced as

"no orator Socialist," Shinwell

and was

The incident was prophetic, Ministry of Fuel as scapegoat In 1947. demoted from the for the fuci crisis, Shinwell suddenly shone as War Minister, His surprising success with the generals picased him quite as much as the favour of duchesses had tickled MacDonald Mont gomery, he boasted, passed him his NAAFT allowance of whisky -to be used "only

alse basking shyly in the conf medicine," dences of Spowder and his wife

He has steered a lone course Ethel At tea with them in

through recent party squabbles. Golders Green he would hear when he first joined Glasgow all about MacDonald's feeble Council in his twenties there grasp of events.

were also two factions among

party.

In 1931 Shinwell suffered in the Socialists, Kirkwood asked the general disaster which these him which faction he would two leaders brought on their join, Shinwell's" answer is MacDonald tried to significant: "Neither I belong co-opt him for his National to the Manny faction," Government. "I want you to The Manny faction. stay," he phoned Shirwell. But always been a one-man faction

-but in gingering-up "Conflict Without Malice": pub. publie life it has been worth a

10 more than a tinker's cuse. lished by Odhams (21.).

·

TAIKOO SUGAR

HALF CUBES

at

furlong. He Anished third My

. to four friends who were stay- three to one and Thirty-three to one and you will see how ing with me.

close. I had got to it.

༢.༤་

15.00 25.00 known when I went to bed that miserable £44.

I had day's profit had shrunk to

8.50 the dram horse was running

Besides I already I had to rely solely and

The dreams then stopped, and It's hard enough to find any next day. actively wanted Claro to win.

It was my good fortune, after far horse starting at 33-1-especially Jess successfully--on rational selections.

when it has won the test race. all, that I had not seen Friday's We were therefore amazed and paper till evening. It saved me

backing a loser. delighted to find Pretence

So I think that dream was 7.50 different from all the others. excuse anyway. it

It was with my seventh dream

Chinese Creeds & Customs

Enjoyable Cookery

Baby Book

This is Hong Kong

The Hongkong Countryside (Herklots)

25.00

Hongkong Birds Herklots).

35.00

Coronation Glory

King George VI

7.50

That's my was wishful dreaming,

It's Fun Finding Out - 2nd series

[Bernard Wicksteed)..

5.00

Rupert Adventure Books

Rupert Magazines

No Hiding Place (Behind Scotland Yard)

10.00

Common Marine Food-Fishes of Hongkong

(second enlarged edition)

24:00

Ten Points About Pearls

1.50

Weights & Measurements

15.00

3.00

On Sale At

Stamp Album

Hurst Park

among the forty probable run- The one thing I am wondering ners for the Manchester Novem- now is when will it happeni ber Handicap, due to be run the again?

in Febuary 1949 that Pretence In October last year things following Saturday. 4.00 entered the picture for the Brat again. I went racing at Hurst suddenly started happening

Won

their

WORLD "COFFEIGHT RESERVED

It seemed too good to

be

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

#rt

very

YES

NO

dme. I dreamed that he and Park with my brother Wynne, true when we saw that Pretence 1.00 Monk's Mistake

respective races. In this dream, Much to my surprise, I saw was currently being quoted es usus, I was reading the next Pretence among the entries for 40-1-odds which might day's paper, i

the third rare. Five years had easily shorten to those I had passed, but he was listed as an dreamed by the day of the race. eight-year-old at there could

My record

be no doubt this was the same horse.

I called my bookle, and bet

£25, to win. Thim I slood to The form Bgures showed he make exactly £1,000. My had been placed in his last friends also made thee bets. Next day I was hardly sur four outings. He was a

rank prised to find both horses were outsider at 20-1. I decided there. If happotted that it was not running that afternoon.

was no earthly (or unearthly) til the Friday evening that reason why I should back. looked at that morning's paper,

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. grounds of wishful dreaming I ed. Ten minutes before the race the radng page. Pretence bad

HONGKONG

I dismissed Clam on the Then s strange thing happen. I tore my hair when I turned to realised that my record till row I met Tom Phillips, I hadn't seen been cratched from the KOWLOON was seven wins out of sever. It him for severd Tears and it was November and 1 had therefore seemed therefore, that there entirely a chance meeting already fost£25!

Put a fick in the appropriate. ace above and keep the panti until tomorrow, when the anawer will be given, t

together with a new story- by 2

Ursula Bloom

NO

GRANULATED ICING

CASTER

TAIKOO SUGAR

MEATED

It has

*