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NOTES OF THE DAY

ESPIONAGE

FORTUNE WON IN RACING SEASON

The Turf, which may be the most expensive of bob- b.es, prov.des b.g money prizes "for" w.nnng owners, whoan horses in these days are usually entrusted to one or other or the famous train- ing stables. The following articlo draws attention to the"

surprising rum of success joyed this season by Mr. Frank Butters's stable at Newmarket, and describes a trainer's everyday routine.

THE

sweeping success of one

The Very Idea!

PIRATES HUNT THE HAGGIS

does not enter into it at all. The great distinction which Mr.

By George {Butters has gained in his pro-

CONTINUING our soul- fossloh, and the large incomo which in the last few years he

searing serial after a must have derived from it have week-end mainly devoted to been thoroughly earned. They St. Andrew and other hag- are the just rewards of a bigh

degree of professional skill, back gard topics we find that our ed by an intense devotion to and pen has gone agley or some an oxceptional capacity for work, Highland fling.

directed by clear, conndent judg- ment,

Such qualities command success in every sphere. They overcome -luck more often than they are sided by good luck

·

For instance.

(Below we continue our kitt fluttering serial in which George finds himself marooned in a deat with a gang of pirates. George has been captured by the blood- thirsty marauders who have been instructed by their chief, Mias Bloop-Cao, nee Hollywood, to pro- cure à hangts for Bias Bay celebra- tions of St. Andrew's Day.)

This is not fiction, Information of an official nature has been published -disclosing the immouse secrot activity of international spy systems. There is not a nation of any consequence which has not, in the past few years, been shockedl to discover that espionage of one sort er another is going on within Its borders. Britain is no excep- tion. There have been unpleasant. discoveries in unusual places. They have not been given wide publicity. In December, one year ago, Robert Gordon Switz, an American, and his 22-year old wife, were arrested in Paria by members of the. Surste. They had in their possession certain documents and various other in- criminating material. They were the "letter box" in Paris of a large

training stable has been a group of Soviet-employed eples who striking feature of this racing

Mr. Buttera did not begin to were gathering a harvest of useful

Bonson. The horacs trained by Mr. train in England until he Information respecting French mill-Frank Butters at Fitzroy House, nearly 60. He was educated at an was tary and naval matters. We do not Newmarket, have won £88,800 in English public school, Framling- know what has become of the Switz prize money so far this year.

ham, but began his training career

"Bring me A haggis dead or family. But we do know that their

This sum is three times as large in Austria, as did his father, the alive," swore the blue eyed chlof- arrest and confessions made por-

as the next highest in the trainers' late Joe Butters. When the war tainness of the society, roosting a sible the round-up of a large num-list, and rarely in the long history came Mr. Bulters was not por- husky looking pirates on the knee. ber of operators whom the French of racing have the horses of one mitted to leave Austria, though cap with her football boots. Government had long been anxious stable earned so much in a single the English racing community On Thursday we left us with a to discover. Among them

season. The record In thin res there was treated most kindly. pistol pointing at our amidshipm Lydia Stahl. Her own magnetism, pect is held by Mr. J. Lawson who

During those years most of his while the wicked looking fellow at n sort of seductiveness, and a free

trains for Lord Astor; Mr. Somer savings disappeared, and when he the other end of the gun spat at the supply of gold, gave her access to ville Tattersall; and others, at began to train in Italy after the odd Wave to demonstrate his secrets which France had been at Manton, in Wiltshire. In 1081 he Armistice he had virtually

to accuracy.) Pains to keep. She obtained War

won for his owners £98,899 in make a fresh start. In a few College lectures, information re

stake money.

years came Lord Derby's engage- "Avaunt scullion!” shouted garding the explosives used in

This season has three weeks toment as private trainer at Stanley the coxswain in the third upper. French shells, facts about poison run. In that time Mr. Butters, nohouse. The contract Rasea and gas masks tested at the doubt, will win more races, but it four years, and Mr. Butters was

was for (Fukien dialect). its extremely improbable that he immediately Biological Institute. All went to Russia. Yet. yesterday, we read will beat the Manton racord. that France and Russia had agreed have no reasonable chance of do- successful, upon a common policy for the pro-ing it," he remarked to me a few not renewed: Lord Derby

The engagement, however, was tection of the pence of Europe. In days ago, "because all the rich the light of these revelations prizes have gone."

at cutting down

A timo of espionage it would seem incredible

national economic anxiety, and Mr. Ile doubts if two racing records Butters, who had always been

The only thing that prevents him that France can have faith in the achieved in the last few years will private trainer, was "out of a job." knowledge that the chieftainness from killing us out of hand is the ever be surpassed. One of them in December 1930 he lensed Fitzroy would vent her spleen on him if he is the Manton total for 1931, and House, Newmarket, as a public served up an old haggis-and we the other he establised liimielt

trainer, though at that time ho doubt if we could keep for over a at Ascot this year when he won 3 had not been promised a single week. We daren't tell him that of the 28 races.

horse. He was over 50 then, and the original haggis was mauled to That was a wonderful triumph; beginning anew.

An owner sent death in a brawl at the Edinburgh because nearly all the boat hersee him two moderato animals. A Stock Exchange when he dropped who are at for racing run at Ascot, and the competition for the little later he took some belonging a chopped saxpence on the floor of to Sir Alfred Butt, including the house. This message is sent in rich prizes there is exceptionally Lord Bill, & horse of roguish a Johnny Walker bottle. Anybody keen.

do as well during the following in and send it back by the next reputation' with whom he was to receiving it please put some whisky

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LOOKING BACKWARDS

If popular literature is any reliable guide, most people nowa days are doing a deal of wistful thinking about the vanished past,, During recent years, publishers have brought out a surprisingly large number of books which mirror the past as a time of high charm and contentment. Some of them are novels and some of them are books of reminiscence; some of them look back to the dim and distant past, and some of them go back only to the

Was

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season.

The Cereal

(See to-morrow's thrilling con and consistently | tinuation of this serial which we confine to its short limita in respect to the Scottish celebratióne. Wi we avaunt to-morrow or in the coxawain only playing?

was

WOMEN AS WEAPONS

Women seem to take to this work of espionage. It was a woman who was behind the activities in Paris, in Rumania, in Finland. M. Riskki, Chief of the Finnish Secret Service. knew something about "Mary Louise," said to have worked in

Thirty-three horses trained by Mr. Britain and to have attempted to

Butters have won nearly 90 races obtain secret information from

between them this season, and the Lieut. Baillie-Stewart. She was

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES Towards the end of that year golden-haired, blue-eyed, and nos-average value of the prizes gained sensed a beautiful figure. M. Itiekki exceeds £1,000, in spite of the fact

By Juliet Lowell Much Good That Does Us connected her, somehow, with the that the stable secured only one the Aga Khan sent his horses to disappearance of mobilisation plans, of the five classic events-the Fitzroy House, and then, after the with the vanishing of the drawings Oaks-and missed, though narrow briefest break, Mr. Butters's re- Young's Laundry for a new rifle, and other valutely, the Eclipse Stakes, which thitmarkable triumphs were continued, Wanchai documents. M. Okslas, Minister year was worth about £7,000 to the high-class horses, each of great laundry to you. There's me and The care of a largo stable of We're sending all our weekly for Defence. intimated that this winner. was the result of a Soviet plot. It was believed that the whale Finnish technical military staff had been marked for assassination. The country wan tense. Subjects were arrested, Then, as the pursuit of sples grew hotter, one dark night. tier, their lights drew close to book there runs the melancholy Helsingfors. The Finns am 21 sentiment that things used to be gallant tot and sneered at what they believed was an attempt on the part ever so much happier and more of the Soviet to frighten them.

Mr. Batters has been training in secure than they are now. This They went ahead with their invest!- England for eight seasons, and in contrast

is not drawn with xation, arraigned a crowd of sus-that time he has won nearly hali morning work of his horses. Ho

pected apies, and canvieted twenty- a million pounds in stake money reference to the depression. It four of them. M. Riekki was given for his owners. This is probably has just time for his breakfast bu is as if the depression, to these the French Legion of Honour for another record. He came from rushes from the heath to his train, Toro the second lot goes out. He his work in this connection. But Italy to begin training för Lord authors, simply climaxed a pro- caplonage goes on. Men who are Derby in 1927, and in that and theor to motor to a distant meeting gression that had been going on caught at it are generally shot. following season his horses won endeavours at all costs' to return where he has runners,, and he for a long time; & progression The women go to prison for more in stako money than those home the same night. The work

tel fifteen years, away from the old simplicities. Majewsko and Frau Littie could headed the trainers list four times

Madame of any other trainer, He has for the following morning muat be the old virtues, the old content tell amazing stories. But Poland in 8 years; he has been second arranged; there are entries to bo made, forfeits to declare, and ments. A great deal of this has sent the former to prison for once and third twice. life and the latter.

jockeys to-be-engaged.—~

4

Mrs. Timothy Dunn,

actual or potential value, is a my husband and my daughter Tocs. The Aga Khan, the stable's chiefly. All the eare in the world will Tess she dont wear much.

tremendous, ceaseless reaponalbill. We ain't holding nothing back but patron, has won 1our times ns

not prevent a probable Derby win-

Cordial much in stake money as any other ner injuring himself by a playful! owner this season, and his winners trick if he is so minded, have earned considerably more

Umidwar might have won the than £60.000. The other owners Derby this year for Mr. Butters if elude Lord Durham, who won the as he tried to rise after lying down Oska with Light Brocade; Prince Aly Khun, Sir Alfred Hutt, and Mr. to rest in his box. The effects of T. Lant,

that-comparatively alight-injury- may have cost his owner.. many

nineties; but through book after ghostly planes flew along the fron- or whom Mr. Buttura trains in-he had not hurt himself one night

nove

The story behind these figures

thousands in stakes.

A trainor supervises the early

10-30

Tess.she dont wear-much.

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What's A Million

Paris, France

sentiment is undeniably justified, knows where she may be. In is very different in its essentials Life did move in a more even Vienna; in Tokyo. in London, or from most of the romance and Mr. Butters has the valuable tempo, in the old days. Men's Hongkong? Why not? The spies drama which, in racing, is to be and efficient assistance of his only Mr. Samuel Hardon Church, Pre-

of the nationa are everywhere. found ni idens were less confused. Their Russia is not the only one certainties were less open to accused,

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DEFEAT OF DISEASE able fact is that we have moved

News that into a time of profound change,

ecientists of the at -last and it is as confusing and Pasteur Institute have

perfected a vaccine for yellcky fover generally unhappy period as bringe one of the most herole and. any in modern history. Yet inspiring chapters in the history of however much this looking back medicine nearer to its conclualon. at the past may salve our The fight to wipe out this great wounded feelings and meet our plague has enlisted some of the wistful desire to re-create finest brains in inedicine, and some of the bravest spirits. From Reed time when the world was!

to Noguchi, the work has been in younger and less perplexing, in the hands, of men who did not us hesitate to risk their own lives; and precious little good. For the it has been carried forward with past, after all, ls-the past. an Intellectual skill and a patience It cannot be brought buck. It is fitting, too, that two American that are nothing less than amazing. For better or worse, we have scientists Drs. Andrew Watson moved on, and we shall not Sellards and Hans Theiler, both of find salvation. by looking over the Harvard Medical School- our shoulders at the shady should have played prominent parts places beneath the trees. We in development of the now vaccine. may not like the present era. Arst great blow in the fight against It was Americans who struck the It may be inferior to the olden yellow fever. It is fitting, there daya in any of a dozen ways.fore, that Americans should be in But it is the era we have on the last campaign of the war. to live in; and only by facing

it resolutely and bravely can wo

pave the way for a future understandable, but it can also that will be an improvement be bad for us: The only value on it. Once in a great while of looking backward is to gain the stream of human history lessons from its experience, makes an abrupt, right-angled which shall be of worth in turn, away from everything planning the future. This truth with which most people are applies as much to a Colony familiar, on towards the un-like Hongkong as it does to known. We seem to be living any other centre of human in just such a moment to-day, activity. We shall þest serve In the circumstances, our pre-our time and day if we culti- ! occupation with the past is vate the habit of looking ahead.

every -turn. Betting `(Continued on Page 10.)

"Wallace, can't you come on home now? I've just received

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