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Finale in Spain
at the hearts of all but the dull-
est of us.
"They're O means something
HOW.
But much luas been done since the beginning of the year before, the Starter at the Valley was able to signal his first "away" on Satur- day,
Remember, much as Hongkong prides itself on its amateurism, rac- ng here is as much an industry as it is in Englandt or in Australia.
Recognition of Nationalist Spain by Great Britain and France is a far greater blow to the Loyalists than the loss of Barcelona. As General Franco exultantly proclaimed in Burgos yesterday: "What Britain didditions of men; from the man who to-day the rest of the world will du to-morrow.
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It gives work to all sorts anzi cun-
breed ponies in Australia and North China to the trainers in Itongton, from motsr-gar drivers to rickshaw- men, from clerks to soldiers.
sinec
the
This morning. jockeys and owners, big gamblers and punters and
horses
are
news again.
Honghong is from London-to sec the famed Melbourne Cup, run OT the first Tuesday of November.
Take the Derby at Home. The Derby is part of British history. It is also very good for British busl- net. At most modest estimate, á million pounds, is spent before the Derby horses go careering ruund the Epsom course at their 33 miles on hour before the most representative assembly over brought together in these islands.
Another £500,000][ least-s on buying yearlings from out the dividend of the most com- which every optimistle owner hopes pliented ruce. Automatically, as you to produce a Derby winner. buy your tickets, it flashes the total
puri-mutuel to automatically work spent
sales. An automatic barometer And quite apart from the ordin- shows you which horse is favourite, ty meetings, millions more are which is second favourite, which one spent on the classics. hasn't had much support.
Not that everything about rac-
are
not
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Now for some gurts. Take the g is reckoned in seven Egures. The only thing that can be
Cash Sweeps. It is probably au The stable lads current fight for said in favour in Mr. Chamber- To prepare for the thousands of
under-estimation to say that, in the trade union conditions has chown
that five days of racing during the An- pretty clearly to Happy
same sections people who have gone ain's act is that it promises to
Valley every day
nual Meeting, $1,500,000
- at least of this industry Saturday, paper readers. make the long-delayed end of employees of the Jockey Club and is necessary at the race-course.
A staff of reporters vested in these alone. Millions of overburdened with' riches.
The this struggle certain and much of the Tramway Company, to name results and comment must be phon "ollars also go on the pari-mutuel. two of those chiefly affected, have ed as the race is being run, as the
Yet, 2,000 would-be jockeys still less remote. What capacity for had to go all out for the post tew punics dash past the winning post. the tramway company and buses. Var, ach dreaming of emulating More Hurts? Well, het's look at write to one Epsom trainer every resistance may still reside in weeks.
A battery of notype nine was Estra cars are needed to carry pas- the triumphs of a Donoghue or Madrid and Valencia is not Printers had to work overtime to to deal with the edited copy-to turn sengers to and from the Valley, and Richards. indeed to be regarded as negli-that are useless after a day's racing Frames of type--each fraing a com- a long string of each walling for stable apprentices have to be in- print the thousands of programmes typewritten story into mctal slugs, at the end of each meeting you see And that despite the fact that gible; it is, however, hopeless, unless they are kept as souvenirs picte page-must be locked and their leads,
'dentured for five years and even taken to the busement where of an extra-special win. with, the handl of every TRN
printing pecasts await them.
In Hongkong, nearly all the people then stand only one chance in ten holding
the down
balance Have you thought of the amount
patronising the
"Stand of ridinis în public and perhaps" Members' of work that is necessary to prepare On Derby Day, the "Telegraph" travel by car.
one chance in twenty of riding a strongly in favour of the Insur- those race-books. Of the maze of was setting the results of the Derby
few winners. gents.
dala that must be compiled? Just on the streets of Hongkong seven traffic gives many a trafle ofleer u Either way, the job of controlling
Stunley Woolton estimates. i- minutes after the winning pony
cidentally, that Kratuitous headache. Defeat, in the case of Loyalist turn over the pages and see for your-
costs nearly passed the post.
£1,000 to make Jockey: and the Spain, is great also, and in this
How
But, as far as the buses and trams Jockey, when made, often all that
Nobody connected with racing can information hour of their fallen fortunes it collated? By good ofice organisa- afford to be idle.
well out of the business with less than are concerned, it leaks very
making him
In his is impossible not to respect the tion. Dy in every scrop of retain mechanised routine, not only for in the trafic returns at the end of the cost of
tevant information. And by
the week. It is the kind of news pocket. the newspapers, but for everyone the courage and tenacity or the testament
every trainer and connected with the events at the that means business, too, for shop-
One more figure? It costs Just Loyalist armies who have hell owner-and not a few punters.
Valley. The wonder in that this keepers in the city, for the cinema out so long against fearful odds,
mechanisation, far from dulling the houses and for cabarets and hotels, but $50 a week to keep in irain- glamour of racing, has enhanced it, for people, finished with the racing, ng one of the ponirs which will be overwhelmingly superior equip
like to go on spending money when fiving the crowd at the Valley to
day the thrill of its life-when the One day Hongkong will have the they return from the course. ment and the failure of demo- telephones are installed. The Press several years the Hongoing Jockey small scale compared with racing in
At every big Race meeting special ultimate in mechanisaflon. For
ery goes up again: "They're off!** cracy. The men who fought for box must have communications with Club has toyed with the Idea of in- other parts of the world. Take Racing in Hongkong is on a very' Spain have incontestably shown or success and defeat can be flushed cal marvel invented in Australla.
offices in the city, so that the stories stailing the lotalisator-the mechani-
-To-day's Thought- HERE were wo fallen in a the mettle of their Spanish to the waiting prousts, Have you
great question of the law, pasture. Though all else be lost
whether the grey mare may be to them, they have kept their
the better horse or not.
honour.
There is double-tragedy in the haste with which Britain and France have extended recogni- tion to Franco in the fact that insistence was not made that a prerequisite' should be an assur- ance from the Insurgents that there would be no victimisation or persecution. Incidentally, the | Loyalist Government announced
HOUR shortly after the fall of Barce-
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lona that it was prepared to negotiate for peace if Franco would offer. this guarantee. was refused.
It
There is a reminder in the threat of terrorism against anti- Insurgent criminals" that the end of the Civil War will not necessarily end the terrific loss of life hostilities has brought to Spain, just us there is a remin- [ der in the recent declaration that į Italian troops would not be. withdrawn until peace came, that security and national indepen- |dence are still far away, and that European tension will not ond with the collapse of Loyalist Fresistance.
Pence in Spain will not im- mediately resolve the doubts and fears which have been perplex- ing the capitals of Earope since i the Civil War began two and a İRAZIE JANAMMILLE JARRESTIMIST - half years ago."
self.
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Austraila, for instance. It is greatest racing country in the world. People travel from one end of the other-and that's mechanical some distance, for CL
the Australian coastline is very much further than
tion that is necessary in order to romance in itself. It takes less than country to the ever thought of the extra organisa- This remarkable robot bring race results quickly to news twenty
..
seconds on
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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It
SIR THOMAS MORE.
Scarlet Pimpernel Lost Everything
Somewhere in Sussex.
comes
THE Scarlet Pimpernel of the Spanish war, Captain Edwin Christopher Lance, D.S.O., who for the last eigh- teen months had lived in a prison under the daily threat of the execution squad, arrived secretly in England recently.
Captain Lance was accused by were 2,000 of us imprisoned in a for- mer monastery rent Figuras, El the Spanish Republicans of hay- Collel. Before that there had been ing smuggled out of the country only 300. more than 100 men and women
"Seven others were packed with me of noble birth, wealth, or in my tiny cell. Before that I was. political hostility..
in the Uruguay, the prison shilp in
on
"I was regarded as the most dan- Barcelona port. Once or twice, dur- gerous man in the enuntry," he saiding, air raids, we were taken for a hind two crime sheets. No. 1 ac- cruise round the Mediterranean. cused me of being n spy, No. 2 of "I was arrested three times, being an accomplice
each occasion for explonage, the Inst time in Madrid in 1937. I owe my escape entirely to Mr. Stevenson, whoj a Dr. Negrin, the Prime Minister,
"At the moment I am the most Ignorant man In Europe. I do not know what has been happening for
Cafeteria Rolls To Workers
the last year and a half. When on several occasions to plead for me. crossed the French border with the British Minister in Barcelona, Mr. Ralph Stevenson, 1 had to ask him who was King of England now. "I have lost everything I had ex- | cepi my gold signet-ring. My father
Toledo. gave it to to on my twenty-first A rolling cafeteria to give factory birthday, and I have hidden it in workers on spendy production lines. many places,' Including my mouth mid-morning and afternoon snacka, and between my toes.
without loss of time from work, has Towards the end of last week, been designed by a manufacturing when things were getting bad, there company.
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