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FAVOURITE WINS THE DERBY.

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2. THE EXCHANGE PLATE- Presented by the Bankers and Ex- change Brokers of Hongkong. Value $1,000 to Winner. Becond to, receive $300 and Third $200. For China Ponies.

Weight for inches as per

scale. Ponies that have started in

and not won a race of 1 milo or over at this Meeting allowed 8 1b, Grims of this meeting 'allowed 6 lb. Ponies that havo run in at least three Extra Meetings in Hongkong during, the

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1929.

BRITISH ARMY ESTIMATES.

REDUCTION STILL CONTINUES.

SUPPLEMENTARY SUM FOR CHINA FORCE.

BRITISH MINERS'

FUND.

OLD CHINESE GENTLEMAN'S KINDLY THOUGHT.

APPEAL TO PUNTERS.

Further donations towards the British Miners' Distress Fund aro to hand to-day, including a sum of $5 from Mr. Lo Cheung-p, of 6, Moreton Terrace, Mr. La la an old

Season 1929, one or more of such COMING EXPERIMENTS. man, unable to get about, but he

moetings provious to 1st July 1928 and one or more subsequent to that date, allowed 5 lb. Subscription Grif- fins of this meeting allowed 10 lb. Allowances accumulative." Entrance 110. From the Two Mile Post One Round and in (About One Mile 105 Yards:)

Mr. Eve's Boxing Eve....... "(Mr Pole Hunt) Mr. Dynasty's Young Pretender

(Mr. Haimovitel) 2 Mr. Ho Kom-tong's City Hall

(Mr. Encarnacao) 9 Five startera. Three lengths; atx lengths,

}

Time: 2 min. 14.2/5 secs. Pari-Mutach. Winner, $9.50;

· [DISTINCTION 1st, $5.10; 2nd, $5.10.

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London, Feb. 25.

The Army Estimates for tho forthcoming financial year total 40,640,000, this representing a reduction on the present finan- cial year of £605,000.

The decreases include $293,000 in Army pay, 4183,000 for supplies, road transport and remounts, £192,000 for works, lands and buildings, and £296,000 for miscel- laneous services.

Increases include £141,000 for general stores, and £168,000 for retired pay and other non-affective charges for officers.

has been so impressed with the stories of distress in the British coalfields that he feels he would like to render a little aid to a deserving cause. His contribution is most welcome, for every $6. raised in ・an addition of Hongkong means

£1 to the Fund.

We are hoping that some of the lucky winners of aweepstake and parl-mutuel prizes at the Races will remember the claims of the miners by sending in a proportion of their winnings.

cause.

Bee

In sending a donation towards the Fund, "Lance-Jack" says: "I would surgest that a special appoal be made, through the medium of 'your paper, to the Naval and Cost of China Force. Military Messes of the Colony."

quarters has In an explanatory statement, Support from such THE HONGKONG DERBY Sir Laming Worthington Evans, been forthcoming in other places A Sweepstakes of $20 each with the Secretary for War, shows that in the East, and we give publicity $8,000 added. For China Pontes, bona fide Grifins of this Meeting. the Army Estimates have been to the suggestion in the hope that

Home of these messes may First Pony to receive 70 per cent. continuously reduced since 1920, their way to help the deserving Second 20 per cent; · Third 10 per when they totalled £62,300,000. cent. of the total amount. Weight for inches as per scale, Ponies to be rid den by Jockeys who have won at loast 6 Official flat races in Hongkong or China, or Jockeys approved by the Stewards, One Mile and a. Half. Mr. Ho Kom-tong's President Hall (Mr. Encarnacao) Provision in made for Mr. Jolin Peel's Adam

establishment of 150,500, or 3,000 (Mr. Heard) 2 fewer than in 1928, when there were included for constitutional Mr. John Pool's Royal Flush

1,600 Indian (Mr. Haimovitch) 3 reasons

troops employed by the Air Ministry in Moaars. Lau & Lee's Duke of

Chantilly

the Middle East, which are now

......... (Mr. Hu)

1

of

No money provision is made inj the Estimates for the excean cost of malditional troops in China, but a Supplementary Esilmate states that an additional £116,000 is re- quired, bringing the total to date to £4,115,000,

to be withdrawn.

Army Mechanisation.

an

Contributions so far received by the Telegraph are as follows:

Already acknowledged.....$2,766.

& 10/- "Lance-Jack" Mr. Lo Cheung-ip

Total

5.

..107- and $2,775.

THE REPARATIONS PROBLEM.

GERMAN PAYMENTS IN KIND.

Mr. Ulster's Erin's Isle ................

(Mr. Charles).. 0 Mr. Eve's Grand Tattoo Eve

A further decrease of 1,500 in (Mr. Pote-Hunt) 0

the establishment is due to the

London, Feb. 25. Mrs. Dunbar's Hiawatha

(Mr. Hill) o smaller number of additional troops

The Experts Committee on Re- employed in China, the diaband-parations in Paris to-day received Chan, M. & A. E. M. Rafeek's

ment of the West African Regl- Ideal Stag..(Mr. Harriman) · 0

the procedure to be applied re- Won by 2 lengths; half a ment, and the reduction of the report of the Sub-Committee on Sierra Leone garrison, the mechani- length.

sation of another Field Brigade of garding that section of German the Royal Artillery, the abolition annuities transferable under con-

ditions. of the horse transport companies of the Royal Army Service Corps, and economies resulting from a systematic examination of establishments.

all

1

Time: 3 min. 11.1/5 sces. Pari-Mutuel.--Winner, $8.10;

It has been decided that 1a1, $6.00; 2nd, $6.80; 3rd, $10.30.

Recond Sub-Committee shall be 4. THE SUBSCRIPTION GRIF

formed to examine and report on FINS CHALLENGE CUP.-Value

the system of payments in kind; $1,000. For Subscription Griffine of this Meating. Weight for Inches as The conversion of, the Eleventh from Germany, in order to deter- per scale. To be won two years con- Hussars at Home into an armoured mine whether these should be com- secutively by Ponies the bona fide pro- Car Regiment has been completed, pletely or gradually superseded, or perty of the same owner or owners. and similar reorganisation of the whether other methods of compen- Winner to receive $500 and 70 per Twelfth Royal Lancers in Egypsation for them should be found. cent. Second $200 and 20 per cent, will be accomplished during the British Wireless... and Third $300 and 10 per cent, of year. the Entrance Fees until the Cup is finally won when the Second Pony will! receive 75 per cent, and the Third Pony 25 per cent. of the Entrance Fees in addition to placa money. Entrance $10. Ono Mile and a Quar (or,

Mr. Dynasty's King Fullóch... (Mr. Haimovitch) Mr. Shenton's The Pheasant .. (Mr. Clark) Mr. M. M. Watson's Monk .... (Mr. Stanton) Eighteen starters. Short head; 21% lengths.

Time: 2 min. 41.1/5 sees, Pari-Mutuel--Winner, $108.70; 1st. $37.00; 2nd, $19.00; 3rd, $21.10.

1

No. Manoeuvres, There will

По .be

Army, manoeuvres this year, but divi- sional training will be carried out in Aldershot and in the Southern Commands, culminating in exer- cisen to test the experimental In- 1 fantry Brigades in the light of the

lessons learned from the experi

2 mental Armoured Force.

`AMERICA'S BIGGEST

BANK.

TWO BIG CONCERNS AMALGAMATE.

New York, Feb. 25. The formation of the biggest

There will be a series of exercises bank in the United States, and the without troops for the investiga-sixth biggest in the world, is an- tion of problems of mechanisation,nounced through the consolidation --British Wireless..

of the Guaranty Trust Company and the National Bank of Com-

merce.

The combined resources of the two Banks will exceed $2,000,000,- 000, compared with $1,900,000,000, the capital of the National City Bank, hitherto the largest in America.

, LIGHT RAIN,

To-day's Observatory report states: The antleyclone is central 5-THE GREAT SOUTHERN STAKES.-Winner $600. Second to the NW. of Vladivostock. A $260. Third $150. For China Ponies, shallow depression is shown over Weight for inches as per scale.. Win Tongking. Fresh monsoon may The new Bank's capitalisation nera at this Meeting & lb. of two be expected along the S.E. coast of will be $70,000,000 and the Bank or more Races 7 lb. cxira, Griffins China and over the N. China Sea. will only bo exceeded in size by allowed 5 lb. Subscription Griffins of The forecast till noon to-morrow the "Big Five" in England. this Meeting allowed 10 b. Allow-is-East winds, fresh; overcast: Reuter.

ances accumulative. (Jockey allow-some light rain.

ance). Entrance $10. Siz Furlonge. Mcuara, Hinson and Wong's Chesapeake Bay ...... (Mr.

Encarnacao)

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finally won when the Second Pony will receive 75 per cent, and the Third Pony 25 per cent of the Entrance Fees In addition to the place money. 2 Entrance $10. One Mile and Thres

Quarters.

3 Mrs. Dunbar's Sitting Bull (Mr. Hill) Mr. Ho Kom-tong's Town Hall

(Mr. Encarnacao) 2 Mr. K, II. Kay's Tarmacadam-

(Mr. Poto Hunt) 8 Seven starters. Many lengths; many lengths,

SIBERIA, RAILWAY

SMASH.

Harbin, Feb. 26. News has just been received of a train smash on the trans- siberia Railway, though for- tunately the casualties do not appear to have been serious... It seems that the mishap.cc- curred on Sunday evening, the Moscow express (on its way to Moscow) crashed into a stationary goods train lying In the station'at Horbonte,.

Several passengers received minor hurts, but there were. no' serious casualties.

The express was wrecked and the passengers travelled special train from Hortonte

Mensch. Fay and Seth's Christmas

Chimes .......(Mr. Heard) Mr. Eve's New Year's Eve

(Mr. Pote Hunt) Eleven starters. A head;

Time:-1 min, 29.4/5 sccB, Pari-Mutuel.Winner, $18.40; 1st, $8.20; 2nd, $15.20; 3rd, $8.40. 6-THE LUSITANO CUP.- Presented by the Members of the Clat

Time: 3 min. 48.1/5 secs, Lusitano, with $500 added. Second

Pari-Mutuel.-Winner, $5.00'; $250. Third $150, For China Ponles bona fide Griffins of this. Meeting: 1st, $5.80; 2nd, $5.70; 8rd, $0,90, Weight for inches as per scale. 8. THE ROYAL NAVY, CUP.- Subscription Griffins of this Season Presented by the Officers of H. allowed 5 lb. All winners 5 lb. extra Navy, with 1500 added to the Winner, Entranco $10. One Mile.

Second $250. Third $150, For Mr. Ho Kom-tong's Majestic Subscription Griffins of any Benson

Hall .... (Mr. Encarnacao) 1 Weight for inches as per scale, Winzer-by Mr. Dynasty's, King's Courlar of the Garrison. Cup at this Mooting (Mr. IIaimovitch) 2110 b. extra: Other Winners at this. Meeting Ib, extra, Bubscription Mr. L. Dunbar's Frenchmánʼa”, “..

Bay

(Mr. Hill) 3 Grifins of this ycht allowed 61

Penalties not accumulative. Allowances Nine starters, Half a length; accumulative. (Jockey allowance.) two lengths,

Entrance $10. From the. Two Mile Post Once Round; and in. (About One Afilo -105 Yards.) Mr. Chan Pik-chuan's The Sun:

Washington, Feb. 25. (Mr. Hill) 1

The Radio Commission has re- fused the Ford Company's applica (Mr. Pota Hunt) 2tion for construction permits and China Ponies, Weight for inches as Mr. Shenton's The Ptarmigan commercial Heences for six (Mr. Clark) 8 stations, through which the Com- Nineteen starters. Length and pany desires to establish com- munication between a plant and rubber plantations in Brazil. Pari-Mutuel.Wihner, $21:20; at Dearborn, near Detroit,

Router and British Wireless.

Time: 2 min, 04.2/ 5seca. Pari-Mutuel.Winner,:

$8.00; 1st, $5.80; 2nd, $7.40; 3rd, $7.30,

7. THE CHALLENGE CUP Mr. Gubbay's Sunshine Valus One Hundred Guineas. For

per seale. To be won two years con-

socutively by 4, Pony or Ponies the bona fide property of the same owner

or owners, Winner to receive $750 and a half a hend,

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY 76 per cent, Second $800 and 20 per 1st, $12.40; 2nd, $12.00; 3rd, FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8.

Wyndham Street. In the City of Victoria cent Third $150 and 10 per cent. $27.40.

of the Entranco Fees until the Cup is..

to Manchulf-in order to catch thelp connexion.-Reuter.

FORD RADIO PLAN REFUSED.

BEYOND ALL PRAISEI

ACTUAL German Officers and Sailors played

in this splendid film which redounds to the fine courage of both sides in a manner beyond all praise!,

Emden

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ORLOFF BROTHERS,

AT THE

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SELECTIONS ON THE „"BALALAIKA AND

STEEL GUITAR

TO-DAY A: 2.30, 5 10. 7 15,. @ 9-20.

TO-MORROW AI 2.30, 7,15, 8 9 20.

Tomorrow At 5,00, Miss V. Capell's Dancing Display.

RAMON

With

NOVARRO

RENEE ADOREE

MARCELINE DAY, CARMEL MYERI.

A rip-roaring romance with the handsome hero of "Ben Hur" and "The Student Prince" in an entirely different role-as a heartbreaker who finally met,

his match!

Grain

A

Young Man

AT THE

WORLD

Orchestra 5.10 -9.20

A FILM OF PERFECT ENTERTAINMENT

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Interpretar 2.50 # 7.15.

THE ADVENTURES OF A PHILANDERER!

EVE

STARTED SOMETHING

-but it

isn't over

yell

SEE

ADAM

AND EVIL

with

driol of marital mix-ups!

LEW CODY AILEEN PRINGLE

AT THE **

STAR

Ovisle

Florence

Directed

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

"At ́5.80 & 9.20.

MATINEE TO-MORROW AT 2.30 1.