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TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932

BOMB DROPS ON RACE STABLE.

HUNDREDS OF PONIES

EVACUATED.

People of Shanghat have now Become accustomed to the sight of

short notice presented a very dif ficult problem. The IR.C. and tho Chinoso Jockey Club found the Shanghai Race Club ready to nssist them in every possible way. Most of the big Chinese owners, glad to see their precious race ponies still safe and sound mediately took charge of their animals, and they were put into hurriedly orected mat sheds.

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a continual stream of refugees Fivo hundred are being sent to pouring in from the fighting areas. the Loong Fei Livo Stock premises But the sight of hundreds upon at Gordon Road. The Gront West- hundreds of ponies wending their ern Riding School are also stab- way through the Settlement atrucking a grent number of the refugee an entirely unfamiliar note. Aponies. The Shanghai Race Club few days ago they could be seobis arranging to build about 300 walking in single file-a le so atalla on vacant land close to the long that it seemed to be never Club. ending. They also had been for- ced to leave thoir comfortable homes, and each one carried his by Mr. Y. S. Day, Sceretary of the blankets on his back. They also International Recreation Club, all knew not whence they were going the ponica that have been evncunt Stocked by ali Pharmacies, Dispensaries and Departmental nor where they would be able to get shelter and their next man?.

According to a statement made

ed will be under cover in a day or

two.

Crowd at Race Track.

The majority of the penies were

In view of this sudden influx of the property of well-known Chip- ese owners who race on a large ponies into Shanghai, it is inter- scale, and the possibility of a pro-esting to recall a recent enlouin- spective Darby winner being hit tion that was made of the number by a shell was not a pleasant one of ponien which are dally exercised In view of these facts, the Inter- on the Shanghai Race counted in national Recreation Club decided one morning. There are now an to order an evacuation of all additional eight or nine hundred ponies.

ponies to be exercised. With con- ditions as they are at present, there is practically no open spher for riding except the Race Course To say that the latter track. will be somewhat overcrowded in putting it mildly.

In the Nick of Time, Little did they realise as they walked calmly through Shanghai what a narrow escape they hnd had.

They got at just in the nick of time. Soon after the

As soon as the refugees from ponics had departed from the dan Klangwan have recovered from ker zone a bomb, said to have been their hurried flight to safety, they Before require exercise. dropped by one of the Japanese will planes, demolished eight stables; long, then, the Race Course will be four stables in the first block, and used by well four in the fourth block within the ponies; many of them have had compound. Luck was theirs, for their training interrupted by their when the tomb was dropped the recent exile. They will no doubt stables had already been deserted.soon be resuming their training and none of the pontes was hurt. activities, and galloping mornings The finding of stables for such at the Race Club will be worth a vast number of ponies at such going to see.

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