Three Europeans appeared: be--- fore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kow- loon Magistracy” yesterday, - sum- moned for "allowing their dogs, to *** be unmuzzled while unleashed.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The formal opening ceremony of
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races many more horses in India Yet, if an onlooker of a younger than in this country, his success Glasgow by Dr. Margery Fry
generation may venture a guess, here include the Irish Derby and the crowd of to-day's Derby dier- the Irish Guineas. ed in more than clothes and num- former principal of Somerville Gollege for Women, who has re-
3. State in 1. Ruler of
Bombay bers from the Derby Day watchers with an area of 1,600 square miles cently been lecturing in China un- A young elephant wearing a gar- of seventy-five years ago. The and a population of 206,000, he der the auspices of the Universi- land fr the purple and cream co- successors of the corringe folk are
comes to England every year and tles China Committee, the body lours of Windsor. Lad's "owner less insouciant, the descendants of spends the summer at his house which administrates the English played a prominent part in last the smocked farmer's boy less sim-near Windsor. · During his stay, side of the Boxer Indemnity Fund. night's festivities. Shortly after ple and less violentin their which usually lasts five or six the Wanchal Playground will be The luncheon at which Dr. Fry midnight, the elephant and her partisanship: The Derby has be- months, he maker 'a point of | performed by the Hon. Sir Thomas spoke was organised by the Glas-trainer made their appearance on come more a fete-day and, despite visiting practically every race Southorn on Wednesday, July 11, gow branch of the League of the floor of the Savoy Restaurant, all the tipsters whom you may meeting in the country.
at 5.15 p.in. IN enter-pay a Nations and the Glasgow Sorop- where the Maharaja was
penny for their thoughts timist Club.
taining forty guests to celebrate upon the Downs, less of a race on
A clean bill of health was" re- his horse's victory.
which to plunge your spirits with
ported on Tuesday. Proceeding 11 solemn measure your sixpence on your "pony," round the Boor, the elephant made The Derby brings all sorts and obeisance opposite the table where sizes of mankind, from the gipsy the Maharaja was altting and; then woman I met in the crush, ad- marched off amid rousing cheers. monishing her baby in
He is one of the most popular arins. The elephant had been specially "You'll be knocked down, sister," social figures in London, and at Introduced into the cabaret as a to the man whose sister married his parties at Windsor, which have compliment to the Maharaja. the richest young man in London acquired a special distinction, (who was standing not far behind there are congregated famous per- me), and the specialist in tropi-sonages from every walk of life. cal diseases whom I met among the While in London the Maharaja side-shows.
likes to adopt a Bohemian guise, Epsom Downs have surely the and frequently makes excursions most cheerful revivalists in Eng-to the Strand," where he lunches. land. I listened enraptured to the on beer and a sandwich.
Dr. Fry stressed the heavy bur- den of taxation, which is making the Chinese farmer poorer and poorer. She said that in many cases taxes were paid 10 years in
She adyante.
contended that there was a notable growth of national life among younger China, evidenced by the develop ment In agriculture, education, and road services.
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Unlucky Day For Favourite "Hotspur in his description of Not" Unnatural Hesitation the race says the luck of the race "When we blame the League for
was cot with Colombo and his lack of intervention in the Chi-jockey W. R. Johnstone." ness-Japanese troubles we must. "Colombo was running on, at the remember that Japan is powerri finish, which makes me think he to do what she pleases in the East, was not beaten because he could and that the League may well not stay the mile and a half be "He was pocketed at the writes. hesitate to interfere and irritate. In "Shanghai square talles
most vital stage of the race.” ot
Smirke who rode Windsor Lad, the most wanton wrecked city are a monument to
made assault on a
a dramatic "come back" peaceful neighbour the world has after his suspension, ever seen.
MORE A FETE AND LESS A RACE
"It is essential that Europe should have patience with regard
When the rain fell sharply an
The Maharaja is a horseman as well as a horse-owner.
He has ridden since a child, and won his first race at the ago of 8. His prowess as a polo player is well known in India,
Knocked down by motor-car No." 2108 in Johnston Road, Wanchal district, on Tuesday, a child, Wong
Tai, of No. 13 Cross Street, received leg injuries and was sent to the Government: Civil Hospital for treatment.
Falling into the hold whilst working aboard the steamer Cape St. Francis. Chu Him, & labourer, was sent to the Government Civil; Hospital suffering from injuries of
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a severe nature.
gentleman who began, "Everybody "I like to regard myself as a likes expressing their ideas; my Londoner he once remarked. One
The P. and O. liner Kaisar-I- rather used to express his by hav
of his favourite amusements is to Hind is due here from "Shanghai ing a bit of a scrap" before I explore London from the top of a to-morrow at 6 am: passed on to his colleague, who bus. was admonishing a happy audience that Christianity means singing.. and a man who's no ginger is no Christian..
at that smaller festival, an inter- national "Rugger" match.
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Mr. W. F. Arndt arrived in the Colony on Monday evening by the Dollar Uner President Lincold to take up his duties with the Dollar Steamship Company. He was stationed in Hong Kong prior to going to Japan, where he was at- tached to the Yokohama and Kobe branches of the Dollar Line.
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'It's All In The Empire." Windsor Lad's time was amin I left the course, musing upon 34sec, equalling the record for the There was a bad patch this three odd pieces of knowledge I
race set up by Hyperion last year. Clerk of the had morning, when the to China. A civilisation which has Weather seemed suddenly to have
gained the first. that the
The horse was bought at the New- endured for 3000 years cannot be scratched his favourite, Drought, nautical uniform came from Leeds:
only tipster "Captain"
market July sales two years ago with a for 1.300 guineas. condemned because It has fot round its feet in the new condland to have forgotten that Derby the second, that Derby jockeys are The Maharaja of Rajpipla, who tious feet su 25 years. Cuma Day was a promised starter, writes so small that the whole number did not hide his joy at his suc- may. I believe, be the greatest
Alleged to have been assaulted by a. correspondent.
went to the starting-post In two cess; said.
two Chinese Ng Hing, 38, of No. naton of the future; it is vital that hour before the race, those of us you seem to be able to visit the good horse he was? How happy I sent to the Government Civil Hos
fair-size cars; and the third, that "Didn't I always say what a 283, Des Voeux Road West, was Two: noted physicists, Dr. Fran- sne should come into the comity on Epsom Downs, who had fields Derby by road or rail and come their London Office, at 53, Vladimir Zworykin. of the Radio
of nations with good feeling.
am. You see, it's all in the Empital on Tuesday suffering from or gardens, felt that we might or go with far less difficulty than pire, this victory, and ob, what a chopper wounds on the bead, and FLEET STREET, E.C. 4. Tel. Corporation of America, have an
have been misunderstood when we 3137, are prepared to give nounced the invention of almost
asked for rain; we had intended Subscribers and Visitor's Identical devices which appear to point where the proximity of the the Clerk of the Weather to re- advice regarding accommoda- be complete solutions to the fog liner to the light vessel necessitat-pent of his dryness but not to re- tion available, motoring faci- question. The device is really a ed a switchover in navigational pent just yet.
supereye" which picks up through procedure from radio direction So the weather changed back, lities, suitable
shopping a lens scene ahead, even through bearings to “picking up" the light and the thousands of people who fog, and reproduces it on a nine- ship by observing the direction of had packed Derby Day, for a inch square screen in photo its fog siren.
place were rewarded. It drizzled ff, when at home, they will graphic detail Constantly 07- But determining direction by just before the race, and it drizzled call or telephone to the above rating like a motion picture sound is notoriously deceptive in just after. Whether it was drizz- address, they will receive the camera, it records istantly, every fog. It is this human elementling in those exciting moments utmost assistance and the movement and change as though that is liable to fall and it is this when Windsor Lad. Easton and the scene were being viewed in one vital gap in the chain of Colombo raced past the stands, latest available information on person Conditions surrounding | modern navigation" where a fog- none of us had eyes to see. all subjects of enquiry will be the Nantucket collision indicate penetrating device would have I will not say that it was an out- a long-cherished ambition by win- several seasons his licence was placed at their disposal. that the mishap occurred at the averted disaster.
atandingly popular win, welcomed ning the Derby. Although he withheld.
centres, etc.
WESTON-SUPER-MARE BYE-ELECTION
London, June 27.
The polling to all the vacancy
magnificent reception How can body. I thank the publie for it? What Perhaps this last knowledge is cheers they gave my good horse." not so odd. For the Derby com- bines, as traditional things should,
Charles Smirke, the jockey, has spontaneity with perfect organisa-staged a dramatic come-back". tion.
by his victory. For some yearg hè rode the horses of the^Aga Khan, which were trained by Mr. R°C. Dayson, and in that capacity he caused by the appointment of was successful in a number of im- Lord, Erskine es Governor of The Maharaja of Rajpipla, who bortant races, Unfortunately he Madras has resulted as follows:-
Orr Ewing (Conserva is one of the most enthusiastic incurred the displeasure supporters of the Turf, both in Jockey Club Stewards at a period tive) D
21,203 India and England, has realised when he was on the rest. For H S. Stokes (Liberal) 7-551
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