1931-10-14 — Page 11

GO.M. OF CHINA RACING.

MR. R. E. TOEG DIES IN SHANGHAI.

Hong Kong will remember Mr. Toug principally because of his racing interests in the Colony, Ho was racing hers us far back as* 1000. Together with Mr. Spock- man, he scored a number of succe ses with a pony named Butle). In later years he shared his racing interests with Mr. H, H, H. Priest-

HONG KONG ASSOCIATIONS,ley and their representatives have

A Router's message from Shing ha, yesterday announced the death

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of Mr. K. E. Tong of Shanghai," the octogenarian racehorse-owner a sharedoker..

Mr. Raymond Elias Toca was gofe of the oldest foreign resident in Ebanghai where for many years

he had identified himself was the racing of the port, bring a menthor of the Shanghai Tockey Chili, the Interntional Race and Recreation Club and the Chinese Jockey Czub Mr. Toeg was also a member of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Mr. Tocg's ancistion with the Far East or back sixty years, Be was born in Bagdad: and came out East As

a member of the stu of Masary, E. D. Sasson and Campany, working as their repre sentative, in various ports on the Cling Const and Malaya."

Fifty years ago in resided in Hong Kong, where he opened up his own business as sharebroker, bus after remaining here for about two years he took up permanera resterice in Shanghai, carrying on. business is an exchange broker:un til 1922, when he retiren.

Meanwhile Mr. Torg took a kren interest in racing, not only in Shanghai but also in Hong Kong. fle was known among his racing friends familiarly as Sir Jahn and his stable successes, are legion Two of his later penios which were very prominent in the Nor- thern part vero, Roseberry: and Alligator,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931.

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GERMANO SHIPS IN THE WAR.

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in which the Great Butterfly, Mr. Vicholl one expects rather a Platonie iden made visible, receives lot, from his urbanity and inven into itself its innumerable images

Liones Escapes. Hints of the mystic warfare, which is to break in sigus and and Anthony's naming of the antion, at any rato. But here those wonlors, oronto 1 feahng of male and sending each back nito qualities are los espionus thaii its pince, se though he were as the almost inconceivably unsuccess anxiety, rising to a painful exquta cond." Adani, are impressive place ful efforts at verbal brillianes, ment, in the mind of the reader of splendid rhetoric Mr. Vachell is not to blame, per- It is a story with dreadful haps for his insistence on the A lioness has escaped from a travel ling menagerie, and men with rifles faces thronged and fiery arms Gridiron Club. This is a book of but it ends with the at-one meat of short stories, written for magazine und pitchforks are trying to track the lovers, in which Adam find publigation, The "Cirid" has to i

again and again. her: Then Anthony, and his friend his Eve and so sets forth with her introduced

anil famo STRANGE STORY OF BALTIC any emergenes. But, when the air. Quentin Sabot, gan not only then the joyous joutary to the ult and the success

EXPLOIT.

ship Antarotien crashes and he and lioness, but also the figure of a lion at Elsium: You can cowhich have a nics publie schoe mightier and more majestical thin fidantly expect to find the unex backing of the members, one of his companions are flung out into the denizen of any warthly zoo. The pected in these "Mundanus books whom is actually a real KC aro the most inhospitable of earth's appearance of a crowned anaks wildertienses, the secret rift in hispute an end to Damaris Tighe's character is revealed by the deadly, and again thraah the black AT THE SIGN OF THE GRID. By 11 lecture Thimdor rushes, echoing irony of circumstances,

sky though there is neither light They get into touch with thair) ning nor rain, ara omens of barrik The fic. manifestations to come.

been well to the forum Hong Kong, carrying away the Foochow Cup with Kogashima in 1925 and coming within grasp of the Hong Kong Dorby on two occasions, Pretty Polly rauning second in

Lauterbach of the China Sea 1025, to the late Sir Paul Chater' Lowell Thomas. [108. ød. net.] Glorious Dahlia (which, incidental

That Germany employed Clip ly, is still racing in the Colony un- der the name of City Hall), and against British submarines, Jong de- Canadian using second to Elliot fore Great Britain used kimilar Bay in the following year.

Of a very lovable disposition, decoys to trap the German' U-boats, Mr. Toeg retained the affections is at siget, now disclosed for the and respect of all with whom he first tim came into contract, while he was Ivory liberal-warted, and did much

for charity.

He leaves a widow, ona married and one single daughter, and two sons, one of whom is a widower."

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The claim is made by Captain Lauterbach, formerly an officer of the raidor Endon, who relates how, in December, 1915, ho commissioned the first German"mystery ship Mario for service in the Baltic.

There has (he writes) been much (mid of the British mystery, "chips, but I am under the impression that Germany was the country that in troduced them, and I happened to command the first one of all Dur- ing the early part of the war the British, did much damage to our shipping in the Baltic, and the mys tery ship-a, vessel as changeable as the chameleon and as peaceful appearing as the dove-was propos

to decoy them into close

range and sink then,"

In view of the bitterness, with which German war. writers have criticised Britain's "treachery" in using Qhips this authoritative avowal that the "mystery ship was a German invention is decided ly interesting.c

Mystory of Two Submarines. Capt, Lanterbach claims in have | destroyed thros Allied submarines in the Baltic-ape Russide and two

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bingo on, the Ross Ico Barrier, and

the wireless 8.0.8. brings an aero- plane to their reseus Who is to be the Arst taken back to

safely! The commander, of course, should have been the last to leave, but he was badly injured and in a fever, "and allows himself to get the first. chance. There is no other chance for anybody, seeing that the acro plane, on its second journey, turns over and kills its pilot, and then for ton days a blizzard rages without Cessation..

Johnson is censured by a Court of Inquiry, and for the rest of his days his fate resembles that of the An- cient Marineg:

Insteunt of the brass, "the albatrosy Abinit my neek was hung. Can he ever east off the burden of his grave dereliction of duty The girl to whom he was not quite enf gaged before his departure for the Antarctic is loyal to him and mar ries him despite the opposition" of her too wealthy father and despotic mother. He sieks a decent job. yain. being a marked man, and is reduced to living luxuriously on the bounty of his wife's father.

Release at Last.

The main thread of a complex

British-and ho gives a most detail-story of psychological vicissitudes

ed and vivid account of the sinking of the British boats, viz., E. and 2:16.

is struggle to release his soul Again and again he fails over what R. L. Stevenson called the slip- pery verge of self-pity" or info that nood of self-deceiving vanity in which he sees himself as indient

But official records show his claim so be quite unfounded. At no time during the Great War did we lose auy submarine in the Baltic, aparted hero. from those destroyed by their own crews at Helsingfors in April, 1918, to avoid capture.

In the official return of British Navy Losses (Cmd. "200, August 19, 1019), 15 is shows to have been wreeked in the Dardanelles in April 1915, and E. by, a mine in the North Sen in December, 1915.

Nol, until he confesses to his god- father, Lord Eversleigh, and to himself that he really had failed in his duty, not having called on the last scrap of will-power which would have enabled him to assert his authority as a commander, can it be truly said:

This man has penance done, And penance more will do.

Yut for sinking." these two Bri- tish submarines with his mystery Lord Everaleigh given him the man- ehip in the Baltic, Capt. Läntorbichagement of his estates, and he was not only decorated by Prince makes good in a job which involves" Henry of Prussia with the Cross self-sacrifice as well as service mani-

fold,

of Hohenzollern, but received a re- ward of £12,500 from..the firm of Krupp 1

His Own Side.

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The characters of his wife, who

can never apprchend his agonies and endurances, and of the lovely

A possible explanation is that he and loyal Antonin, whose passionate mistook German submarines for devotion is based on complete com- British and ennk two of them. As,prehension, are admirably drawn, on his own admission, he did not and so are the lesser persons of the Lup to pick up the many mem tragical drama. "John Presinad," bers of the crew who were swim.I do believe, has written the novel ming, in the water" ("Prisoners of the season. would only be in our way, and fishing-bonds were already headed fun the spot), he remained in ignorance of "what appears to have been a tragic blander, twice repent- ed. Either that, or the whole story is apocryphal."

Othor yarns in this book impose

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It is possible, of course, that Mr.ired by the ghost stories of Dr. Lowell Thomas is responsible for "Monty James. He is the "first producing this unfortunate clicet n novelist to climb the Fie Mystica, which is the shortest route froin the mind of a discerning, reader. Hell to Juven, in search of a The same author, it will be remem-theme. His novels are informed by hered, was recently, at pains ro

a passionate belief in spiritual, whitewash the German submarine realities, and the eternal strils be- twean. Good and Evi in always commanders, and even had the the busie of his action-prot...⠀

It is 40 with his new mystery efrontery to assert that there was

(which is also a morality), in which no antisinetóry evidence of any the Platonic idens are identified U-boat having sunk a merchantman with the powerful non-human be without first giving it warning.

ings, white-rabedori binele-robed, for or against God, which theme dieval Chrístum vovered or feared," In the Hertfordshire countryside, where is scene is set there exists a small society for the study of ALBATROSS. By John Preeland.

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