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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

The Eighth Extra Race Meets ing will be held (weather per- mitting) at HAPPY VALLEY 03 Saturday, 18th October, 1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p..

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BONG KONG. Octouzz 6, 1936.

SECOND FIDDLE

Morning Raid

POLICE STATION RANSACKED

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Shanghal Oct. 5. A squad of about twenty Japanese marines early this morn- ing raided the Chinese police station at Chapel and ransacked the premises in search of "aples." A number of police were present. but did not resist the invasion.

Later the marines visited nearby roused the Inhabitants villages. and searched their houses.

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CHIANG BACK IN NANKING

TO MEET JAPANESE

AMBASSADOR

Tokyo Envoy Also Due At Capital

Nanking, October 3. Sino-Japanese tension has greatly relaxed following the return of General Chiang Kai-shek who arrived here by air this afternoon and Immediately proceeded to his private residence at the Central Milliary Academy.

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The Chinese authorities also engaged in a spy hunt. Five Buddhist priests suspected D

It now freely stated in official circles that the Generalissimo giving information to Japan were

will receive the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kawagoe before October arrested at Taichong, a few miles 10, possibly to-morrow, to discuss Sino-Japanese problems.

Mr. Kuwashima, accompanied by the Japanese military attache Hongkew and Chapel were prac- tically back to normal this after-Kits and naval attache Satoh, is expected to arrive in Nanking noon. All the Japanese schools to-morrow morning-Reuter. have reopened.- Reuter.

The poet may be right in say ing that many a flower is born to blush unseen, but we all have known men whose complaint is that they were condemned to the fate of the flower that wastes its sweetness on the desert air. The -man who never reaches the posi-westward of Shanghai. tion to which he feels himself on- titled is ape to be very unhappy. Listening to his confidential statement of his case, one cannot but be sympathetic. If he con- vinces us of his qualification to be first violin and we ask why he is passed over, he will probably set it down to favouritisin, influence If we sought in- S. A. SLEAP, or prejudice.

Acig. Secretary.

formation in other quarters we should be told that lie was quite Hong Kong, 5th October, 1936. fitted for the highest position, 4727 but. Probing a little deeper. "we should discover hesitations and difficulties. He was not quite the type needed for the job. He did not inspire confidence, did not seen to have the gift of leadership, was lacking in personality; a good fel- low, but not quite the man for 18. We do not profess to observe the rule of seniority which is often

By Order,

KING'S

MEMORIAL

SUPPORT FOR

“FOUNDATION" responsible for misfits which only

The Editor.

SCHEME

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dence which you must receive on

Governinents can afford.

Speak

to the second fiddle, himself and be may say it is just his luck, and he makes up bis mind to "Hong Kong Daily Press." hang on in hope of better days; Dear Sir-Without wishing to but as years go by and find him add to the volume of correspon in a subordinate position he may the subject of the King's Memo-grow bitter. As he sees men no rial, I would like to express my appreciation of your leading arti- cle on Saturday, and my hope that "Old Timer's wish will come true. That there should be more play Ing fields and open spaces gene- rally in our congested areas is very well recognised. but how achieve that alm?

to

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better than himself and indeed with but half his ability rising to high positions he is tempted to join the Communists or take to drink: The sense of injustice presses heavily on his spirit. His temper worsens. He feels ready to conclude that any system would I have read with Interest

be better than the existing one. your columns of the efforts which are being made, and very success-

He becomes a man with a griev fully I understand, for the donat-ance, and it would be a miracle ing of a practical gift to Marshal if he keeps a level head and is

Whilst Chiang Kai-shek.

reconciled to the universe. He plauding the sentiment as mani-

geta a grouch, and for that dis- festing a wholesome endeavour on the part of the local Chinese

ease there seems to be no remedy. honour a great leader and a great This second fiddle is a most nn- cause, yet I think that perhaps happy man. those who would give of their wealth might think a little nearer home.

In

SUNG DENIES RUMOURS:

Peiping, Oct. 5

Following his arrival from Tien- tsin General Sung Cheh-ruan denied that he had been in nego- station with Lieut-General Tashiro Commander-in-Chief Japanese garrison in North China denial obviously refers to the re- an North China problems.

of

the

The

widespread runiours that Tashiro presented Sung a series of saff demanda.

THE FIRST

TRIPLE CROWN

An Enigma Of The Turf

COMPLIMENTARY TITLE FOR OWNER

When a horse which has already won the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby also wins the St. Lever he is described as a winner

of the Triple Crown and his for- tunate owner receives the same complimentary title.

The distinction has been possl- ble since 1809, the year in which the Two Thousand Guineas, the youngest of the principal three- year-old races of the season, was Arst run. This means, if we leave out the period of the War, that there have been up to and includ- ing 1936-a season la which the feat is Impossible 1.5 different horses won the Two Thousand and the

Derby-123 opportunities of carrying off the Triple Crown. On- ly 11 horses and 10 owners (for the late Duke of Westminster won the

CORONATION SEATS IN BRISK

DEMAND

Australian Firm Books 500

REQUESTS FROM ALL CLASSES

business”* man

An Australian entered the offices of a London Arm of travel and booking agents recently and said that his com- pany was chartering 1 liner to. bring 500 of their employees to England for the Coronation. He asked for 500 seats along the route -of the procession.

route

one more His order provided example of the world-wide interest In next year's Royal pageantry in this country. Requests for Coro- nation seats are now arriving in London by the hundred every day.

In many cases negotiations for the renting of sultable premises are still in an early stage, for sums varying from £5,000 to £10,000 are being asked of the booking. agents for the one-day hire of single buildings.

Crown twice) have accomplished this triumph. It was not until 44

The firm approached by the that years after 1809

Arst

Australian, Messrs. Pickfords, Ltd.. winning horse, West Australian, ap- were able to tell him that they

DOOR OPEN FOR peared, in 1853. In the following have booked, British Industries

CONCILIATION

decade consecutive seasons. 1865 House, near the Marble-arch. Ac-s

and 1888. saw the success of Gladiateur and Lord Lyon. Then. between 1886 and 1903, there were seven winners. Ormonde, Common,

Diamond Jubilee, and Rock.Sand. A long Interval followed until 1935, when the Aga Khan's Bahram was Rdded to the list.

commodation will be provided there for 1,500 spectators.

AMERICAN DEMANDS "One of our stands in Piccadilly

Japanese Envoy Due Isinglass Galtee More. Flying Fox. has already been sold out, and it

With Instructions

rested content when he reached the dignity of "sarge." other cases the inferiority com- plex kept its man in the role of second fiddle. He was diffident, never did himself justice, gad, without knowing it, perhaps had a strain of indolence in his com-cent position. It was not his line to be "ever climbing up the climb ing wave." A world. might be too little for Alexander, but a tub was large enough for Diogenes. A wise man once prayer, "Give me neither poverty nor riches,' and the prayer finds echo in a

Alluding to Sino-Japanese multitude of hearts.

economic co-operation, Sung de- "Contentment" as a word has clared he would only strive for

realisation of this provided it was Japanese Foreign Office expert based on principles of reciprocity and mutual benefit.— Reuter.

a physical basis. One thing is contained," and another when it is held within it and does not The contents" of a overflow, vessel are exactly what it is able to hold. So a contented mind has

Sung, however. admitted that he conferred on the subject of wir Manchuria, but gave re indication of the progress made during the

traffic between North China and.

conversations.

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all that it wants. To be content PERSONAL

The

to play second fiddle may be a great achievement. If its owner does not acquire outward posses- sions he has more than inward compensation in the form of heart detachment and peace. Bun yan's Shepherd Boy was in very mean clothes but had a fresh and well-favoured countenance, and as he sat by himself he sung.* Guide of the pilgrims said of the Boy: "I will dare to say that this Boy lives a merrier life and wears more of that herb called Hearts-ense in his bosom than he that is clad in silk and velvet." A great leader of men declares that all moralists, Pagan and Christian, admit that contentment There is, however, anotar is not natural to any human be- type, and a more philosophic ore, ing. The states of mind "most Why not devote portion of the Quite conscious of his qualifica common are indifference, asceti- money which will be subscribed tious, he realises that leading cism, despondency. despair. for Marshal Chiang Kai-shek po

positions are not plentiful, that "True contentment can rest only furthering the "Elaygrounds

they involve grave responsibility on a religious foundation." Foundation Scheme"-an Ideal which is a genuine idea reacting and such worry as a lower place

ap-

to

to the benefit of the entire com- munity?

I do not wish to enter the lists of depressing controversy. but I

to

to

would suggest that the local Chi- nese are making a very definite gesture towards another Govern- ment in their collecting of funds

make this notable gift the Generalissimo, whilst at their very feet there lurks the trouble and tar- moll of social evils which, I feel the Generalissimo himself would, has he the power, take the

sure,

first steps to eradicate.

An

apostle said he had to learn con- tentment, or, as the word means, to be "initiated" in it, as it were, hy a solemn rite. Whoever bas acquired this attitude is a very happy man. He is a baptised

PARAGRAPHS

manager of the Peninsula Hotel. Mr. A. K. Dimond, the popular

arrived in the Colony with his sister yesterday on the 8.5. Pre- sident Hoover after spending a short holiday in Manila.

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Mrs. Robertson, the wife of Mr.

C. de Saille Robertson, of Messrs. Gliman & Co., accompanied by Miss Robertson, arrived in the Colony yesterday by the a.s. Nellore. Mrs. Robertson has been in Australia for the past eleven months.

FORMER KWANGTUNG

WARLORD

General Chen Chi Tang In Switzerland

Canton, Oct. 5. Over a month has elapsed since the ousting of the Kwangtung war- lord General Chen Chi-tang, it is now reported that he has sele- graphed to his friends in

Hong Kong from Switzerland, where he is taking a rest cure.

He announces that the change has greatly benefitted his health, and that he and his companions are now travelling and enjoying that the sights of Europe, and there is nothing better than being free from official worries, which gain four

has enabled him to

י.

IMMEDIATE VISIT *

TO NANKING

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Shanghal, Oct. 5, A rapid end of the present dead- lock in the Sino-Japanese nego- tiations is expected to follow the arrival of Mr. Kuwashima, the

from Tokyo, this afternoon. It is understood he will travel to Nan- king by air immediately he reaches here to convey the instructions of the Foreign Office to the Japan- ese Ambassador. Mr. Kawagoe

Negotiations between China and Japan, which were broken off on September 22, are expected to re- sume soon after the arrival of Mr. Kuwaahima.

General Chiang Kai-shek is, also expected in Nanking shortly, al- though it is still not known how far he will personally intervene in the negotiations.

The impression exists that the door is open for conciliation, and although a anal adjustment of Sino-Japanese relations is bound to be long drawn out, fears of an

Imminent "show down" have been allayed.

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ROLL OF FAME

No doubt these famous winners were exceptionally good horses, but In the early days of the competi tion there must have been others whose names ought to be, but are not, upon the roll of fame. The condition of the Turf a century ago was such that the issue of many important" races depended less on the speed or stamina of the hurses engaged than on the finan- cial schemes fald by this or that gang of betting men. Apart from the risk of injury to the favourite himself, there was always the pos- sibility that the trainer or jockey

or some official connected with the

stable. would be suborned, or that some other crooked " expedient would be employed to affect the result. Contemporary writers on Turf subjects seem by some means or other to have become con- versant with arrangements which one would have thought were vell- ed in privacy. and write. dispas- glonately of them as normal fea- tures of the sport of horseracing.

West Australian, the first horse

seems likely that every seat we have will be disposed of long be- fore next May," a member of the firm told me, writes a cor- "Two firms in the respondent. United States have already re- served blocks of 1,000 seats each."

More than £500,000 was paid last year for the hire of seats dur- ing the Jubilee celebrations. It is expected that the total for the Coronation will be nearer £1,000,- 000.

Hospitals will be among those who benefit. Over 2,000 seats will be available at Westminster Hos- pital, ranging in price from five to fifty guineas. Pronts will be ing fund. Many of the seats, in- devoted to the Hospital's rebuild- „

cluding those at fifty guineas. have already been sold.

About 1,500 seats"will be avail- able at St. George's Hospital, and here also the proceeds will be devoted to the rebuilding fund. "There are so many inquiries that if we had 10,000 seats we should be able to sell them," an official' said.

said to have won a sum approach- ing £40,000 by Cotherstone's vic- Lory in the Derby, and if he had

was

to win the Triple Crown, was in backed him to the same extent in the opinion of many competent the St. Leger, some disappoint- finest thoroughbred ment or even annoyance at his Meanwhile, the tension locally judges the has greatly relaxed following the which the century had produced failure, the explanation of which apparently public property, up to his day. He was bred and withdrawal of most of the Japan-owned by Mr. John Bowes, of would have been natural. Yet he

marine guards and patrols

took no notice at all. and Scott, Butler. and the rest of them re- COM- tained, we are assured, his

confidence.

Again, when West Australian came to run for the St. Leger, it is stated that some scheme of the same nefari- ous nature was contemplated, but this time Batier, the jockey, was sent for by two influential racing. men, and warned that he had bet-

Reuter.

from Hongkew, calming the fears Streatlam Castle, Durham. In the of the Chinese residents in Chapel, history of nineteenth-century rac- who have practically ceased their ing there are many singular char-

acters and many astonishing care-plete exodus, which

time "last at one week had assumed considerable ers, but Mr. Bowes holds his own as a curiosity. A maņ of great proportionsTM

wealth, he cwned racehorses for something over 50 years, and con- tinued to enter them for races until his death at the age of 74 in 1885. he came af Between 1832, when age, and 1853 he was the most for tunate owner of the day, and won the Derby four times, but after West Australian year he never did all a mysterious

KUWASHIMA ARRIVES

ter be careful how he rode. On the other hand, that pleasant writer The Druid says that Butler adored West. Australian, and would not have seen him beaten for

Shanghai, Oct. 5. On the arrival of the Nagasaki Maru this afternoon, Mr. Kuwa- shima-was greeted by a large num ber of Japanese officials who whisked him off under the noses of army reporters and cameramen. any good at He declined to make any state-change of fortune characteristic of worlds. On the whole it may be

hlin,

ment.

The waterfront was closely guarded by Japanese marines un-

much of the scandal that clrculat- Nobody seems to bave known i ed. whether he ever cared anything Bowes, who was universally ac- til Mr. Kawashima was safely thorities say that he was interest and munificent supporter of the about racing or not. Some au- knowledged to be a most upright

reuter

ashore.-

REPRESENTATIONS

BY BRITAIN

Report Denied By Tokyo Foreign Office

run.

never entails, and that ambition exposes a man to frightful risks, social and moral. He bus read uewhat widely and made him self familiar with the sayings of the wise on the fate of those ser- Stoic, one who finds himself in vauts who hasten to be gods. harmony with a plan drawn up They have no rest; they would not by blind fate but by the succeed, as Longfellow warns us, Ruler of the Universe. This bap-

ed in the breeding of bloodstock Turf, was an unknown figure to and mention is made of his win- the racing public. and for the last if they were not troubled with | tised Stoic who is generally known

ning large sums by betting, but all 30 years of his life never attended great ambitions. Growing more as a Christian has not the slight

the evidence of both points is of a meeting. Nor did he ever take. and more accurate in his vulua est idea how every individual can

the vaguest kind, and indeed is in the trouble to see West Australianı tion of things, he sees that at he fitted into such a plan, but he

many places contradictory. His ex-

He sat in Parliament for second perience with his

Derby best ambition may secure a lit-knows that peace of mind is not pounds in weight-

South Durham from 1833 to 1847. I terminate by expressing my

wiriner, Cotherstone, in 1843 may and was a member of the Jockey hope that "Old Timer" wil suc- the power, 2 little transient won by understanding the Al-Chinese Evening Press.

by quoted as a perplexing affair. Club for over half a century, but fame, a grave to rest in and a mighty but by trusting Him.

This horse was an earlier candid- never attended a meeting. His fading name." If he cannot I've got ou a great deal bet-

ate for the Triple Crown, for after later life was spent almost entire bend the world to his mind, he ter," said a wit, "since I stopped

winning the Two Thousand" and ly abroad. He married a French the finds the sane course is to bend running

Universe." No

Tokyo, Oct. 5 the Derby, the St. Leger appeared actress, a plain uninteresting wo bis mind to wisdom, to master doubt like most of us he had

At a press conference, question- a gift for him. John Beatt who man, for whom he hired a theatre regarding the report that trained for Bowes at. Malton, and year by year in Paris at a fabulous lis impulses, triumph over his dis- tried to seize the helm and steer

Britain had made representations Butler, who rode Cotherstone, were price. The marriage brought him appointments and cultivate a mild his barque through stormy seat

Canton, Oct. 5,

to the Japanese Government re- at the head of their respective pro- great happiness, and when his wife Stoicism innocent of all bitterness and amid rocks and shoals, only Dr. Chow Loo, LLD.. (Heidel

garding the Sino-Japariese situa-ressions, and the Derby winner died he built a Palace of Art to her and hate. He acquires his soul. to find at the lest that no man berg), member of the Standing tion, the Foreign Office spokesman started at Doncaster with odds of memory at Barnard Castle, near of the Kuomintang repued: "It is not true. Britain 7 to 4 laid on him. Yet the story Streatlam. In this he deposited Ambition is not so universal as can play the part of Providence. Committee we are apt to suppose. One man There is a right ambition, and it Central Executive Committee, and has made no representations at is told that it was arranged by many of the art treasures which

someone or other that a horse he had collected.. conquers it by force of reason and compels us to covet the best gifts, University, has not resumed his The spokesman added that named Prize-fighter should win Altogether he sounds most un- will; another was never much which are those which adora duties as Chancellor, since his Japan had heard nothing about the St. Leger, and though it is like what one supposes the typical the attitude of the powers in the satisfactory that Prizefighter did racing man to be. But the stories troubled by it, and leaned rather character. That is the kind of return to Canton,

not win. it is sad to relate that 'told about him are so much at. Bino-Japanese embroglio. to a tranquil life. He found he ambition which enables us to ac

Cotherstone managed to lose. had a greater wish to imitate the cept the place of second fiddle modest violet rather than the right graciously. The angel who

ceed in his effort to create a civic consclouisness in this community which will re-act to the benent of the masses,

Let it be remembered, they afe, always with us.

. Yours etc.. "LOCAL LEANINGS."

U. S. MARKET FOR SOYA BEANS

Chicago, Oct. 5. "As the result of a vole taken by the Board of Trade, it has been decided to institute 1 futures market for soya beans, trading in which begins to-day. The United States No. 2 Yellow will be de liverable on contracts with No. 3 Yellow deliverable at discount of two cents per bushel- Reuter.

DR. CHOW LOO'S

*MOVEMENTS

Chancellor of the Bun

:

ed

Yat-sen all."

It is reported that he left for Hong Kong with his wife by the 5.8. Tal Shan last night, and that he is proceeding to Nanking via Shanghai. to see Marshal Chiang

gandy hollyhock, and the violet knew himself, sent from heaven won. Many a "digger" refused to sweep a chimney, would do it Kai-shek, and also to renew old

to qualify for a commission. He as gladly as if he had been sent acquaintances

disliked higher responsibility and to rale a kingdom.

Chinese Evening" "Pre

He said there was no informa

variance with one another that his Ka to the reported basic

FUTILE CONSPIRACY ··

character remains the enigma tion agreement between General Bung One wonders, what truth, there which it always was. He may have and Lieut-General is in the tale of this futile con-appreciated his famous horses and Cheh-yuan

their classic victories, his wonder- Tashiro clarifying the North China spiracy, and if it is true, who was a

party to the fraud, and what Bowes, ful fortune on the Turf, and his can have thought of it all." He 18 Triple Crown more than we know.

situation.

Reuter.

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