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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939.

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"They're Off!"

The racing season began on Saturday. And it started appropriately with the largest Cush Sweep ever- seen in Hongkong-over $240,000 in first prize and nearly $3,000 for each pony-holder who did not get a place-getter.

This week jockeys and owners, trainers and race-goers, big gam blers and the amah who puts her modest ten cents, and especially to day the ladies--oh, yes, there's also the ponies are news again.

It's true that you'll see them at *** the Valley during the entire racing

season, but this is the week.

Hongkong Telegraph.

and

Not till the Annual Meeting be gins does the glamour of men in bright colours racing lean diminutive ponies around a courie tag at the hearts of all boi the dull-

Wyndham St., Hongkongest of us.

'Phone 26615 March 1, 1939

Finale in Spain

"They're Off!" means something now.

But much has been done since the beginning of the year before, the Starter at the Valley was able' to signul his first "away" on Satur- day.

Remember, much

Hongkong

Recognition of Nationalist | Spain by Great Britain and France is a far greater blow to the Loyalists than the loss of prides itself on its amateurism, rac- ing here is as much an industry as Barcelona. As General Franco | 1 is in Eagland or in Australia, exultantly proclaimed in Burgos yesterday: "What. Britain did to-day the rest of the world will do to-morrow.

It gives work to all sorts and con- ditions of men; from the men who breed ponies in Australia and North Chine to the trainer's in Hongkong, from motor-car drivers to rickshaw-

mm. from clerks to solders.

This morning, jockeys

and

owners, big gamblers and puntors --- and

horses

aro

news· again.

Hongkong is from London-to see the famed Melbourne Cup, run on the first Tuesday of November.

Take the Derby, at Home. The Derby is part of British history, it is also very good for British busi- news. At u most modest estimate, o million pounds is spent before the Derby horses go careering round the Epsom course at their 33 miles an hour before the most representative assembly ever brought together in these islands.

Another £500,000-at least is pari-mutuel to automatically work spent on buying yearlings from

out the dividend of the most com- which every optimistic owner hopes pleated race. Automatically, as you to produce a Derby winner. buy your lickets, it flashes the total

sales. An automalle barameter And quite apart from the ordin

more meetings, millions shows you which horse is favourite, ary

which is second favourite, which one spent on the classics. hasn't had much support.

nuat

aro

Not that cverything about ra-

had to go all out for the past few ponies nach past the winning post. the tramway company and buses, year, each dreaming of emulating

weeks.

Now for some gures. Take the ing is reckoned in seven Agures. Cash Sweeps. It is probably' an The stable lads current The only thing that can bu

fight for under-estimation to say that, in the trade union conditions has shown said in favour in Mr. Chamber- To prepare for the thousands of

five days of being dirbut the An. Pretty clearly that some sections to Happy lain's net is that it promises to Valley every day

people who have gutte

is Meeting, $1,500,000 in at least of this industry are nut since Saturday, paper readers. make the long-delayed end of employees of the Jockey Club and is necessary at the rave-course. The dollars also go on the pari-mutuel.

A staff of reportera vested in there alone. Millions of overburdened with riches.

Yet, 2,000 would-be jockeys' s this struggle certain and much of the Tramway Company to results and comment must be phon- two of those chiefly affected, huve ed as the race is being run, as the

More pures? Well, let's look at write to one Epsom trainer every less remote. What capacity for resistance may still reside in

A battery of notype machines wats Extra cars are needed to carry pas- the triumphs of a Donoghue or Madrid and Valencia is not

to turn singers to and front the Valley, and Richards. print the thousands of programmes

Typewritten story into

And that despite the fact that indeed to be regarded as negli-that are useless after a day's racing, frames of type-cach frame a con- a long string of each walling for stable apprentices have to be in- gible; it is, however, hopeless, unless they are kept as souvenirs plete page must be locked and their loads.

dentured for five years and even taken to the basement where the with the hand of every

vi un extra special. win.

printing presses await thorn.

In Hongkonst, nearly all the people then stand only one chance in ten patronising the Membera Stind of riding in public and perhaps holding down The balance Have you thought of the amount

one chance in twenty of riding a of work that is necessary to prepare On Derby Day, the "Telegraph" travel by, car,

few winners strongly in favour of the Insur- those rare-book Of the maze of was selling the results of the Derby Either way, the job of controlling gents.

Wootton data that must be compiled? Just the streets of Hongkong seven traffle gives many a traffic offer a Stanley

cstimates, in- winning pony gratuitous headache.

cidentally, that it costs nearly turn over the pages and ce for your minutes after the

passed the post.

£1,000 to make a jockey: and the But, as far as the buses and trams Jockey, when made, often Nobody connected with racing can afford to be idle. There is a

are concerned, it looks very well out of the business with less Üran

the newspapers, but

the week. It is the kinu of news pocket. for everyone that means business, too, for shop- connectezi with the events at the keepers in the city, for the cinema about $50 a week to keep in irain- One more figure? It costs just Valley. The wonder is that mechanisation, far from dulling the for people, finished with the racing, in one of the ponies which will be houses and for cabarets and hotel, glamour of racing, has enhanced it like to go on spending mancy when giving the crowd at the Valley to-

Printers had to work overtime to to deal with the edited cuts, at the end of each meeting you see

man

Defeat, in the case of Loyalist Spain, is great also, and in this

self.

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POWDER is impossible not to respect the tiom. Dy him; every scrap of re-

fhour of their fallen fortunes it collated? By good office organisa tain mechanised routing, not only for in the trafle returns at the end of the cost of making him in his

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levant information. And by the courage and tenacity or the

testament of every trainer and Loyalist armles who have held | owner=amd not a few puuters. out so long against fearful odds, overwhelmingly superior equip- ment and the failure of demo- cracy. The men who fought for Spain have incontestably shown the mettle of their Spanish pasture. Though all else be lost to them, they have kept their honour.

There is double-tragedy in the) haste with which Britain and France have extended recogni- lion to Franco in the fact that insistence was not made that a prerequisite should be an R9sur- ance from the Insurgents that there would be no victimisation or persccution. Incidentally, the Loyalist Government announced;

THE SHINING HOUR shortly after the fall of Barce

MARCH 8th. 9th. 10th. 11th.

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lona that it was prepared to negotiate for pence if Franco would offer this guarantee. It was refused.

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 as there is a remin- der in the recent declaration that 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 end with the collapse of Loyalist resistance.

Peace in Spain will not Im- mediately resɔivo the double and fears which have been perplex- ing the capitals of Europe since. the Civil War began two and a

CINCHES NETLAGRACTITIVE SAMPURASAKI KOMUNA CONGEST THUANI STINT STREETLI KÉSemenennzin half years ago.

One day Hongkong will have the they return from the course. telephones are installed. The Press several years the Hongokng Jockey

At every big Race meeting special ultimate In mechanisation. For Racing in Hongkong is on a very box must have communications with Club has toyed with the idea of a small scale compared with racing in offices in the clly, so that the stories stalling the totalisator-the mechant- Austrails, for instance. of success and defeat can be lashed cal marvel Invented in Australia,

other parts of the

to the waiting pressts. Have you

robot

world. Take It is the greatest racing country in the world. ever thought of the extra organisa- This remarkable tion that is necessary in order to romance in itself. It takes less than country to the other and that's People travel from one end of the

brag race reautts quickly to news twenty seconds on

the some distance, for

Australian mechankal coastline is very much further than

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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By Lichty

"We'll appeal the verdict--I just discovered our client has $500-

we didn't know about!"

day the thrill of its life-when the ery goes up again: "They're off!"

-------To-day's Thought HERE were te fullen in a great question of the law. whether the greu marc may be the better horse or not.

-SIR THOMAS MORE.

Scarlet Pimpernel Lost Everything

Somewhere in Sussex,

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- near Figuras, El

the Spanish Republicans of hav-mer monastery

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 call. Before that I was

political hostility.

in the Uruguay, the prison ship in Barcelona port. Once or twice, dur- in air raids, we were taken for a

on

"I was regarded as the most dun- gerous man in the country," he said "bed two crime sheets. No. 1 sc- cruise round the Mediterranean. cused me of being a spy, No. 2 of each occasion for espionage, the last

"I was arrested three times, being an accomplice.

Cafeteria Rolls To Workers

"At the moment I am the most time in Madrid in 1937. I owe my ignorant mun in Europe, I do not escape entirely to Mr. Stevenson, who know what has been happening for saw Dr. Negrin, the Prime Minister. the last year and a half. When I on several occasions to plead for me." crossed the French border with the British Minister in Barcelona, Mr. Ralph Stevenson, I had to usk him who was King of England now. "I have lost everything I had ex- cept my gold signet-ring." My father gave it to me on my twenty-first A rolling cafeterin to give factory- birthday, and I have hidden it in workers on speedy production lines many pinces, including my mouth mid-morning and afternoon snacks, and between my toes.

without lose of time from work, has "Towards the end of last week,| been designed by a manufacturing when things were getting bad, there company.

Toledo.